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“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.”

Way Needs Giving Doe Grows Causes Growth Disease Plant Substance Soil Organisms Indispensable Microbes Infectious Diseases

Author:Elie Metchnikoff

“The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.”

Disease Poison Soil Skepticism Virgins Alcoholism Tuberculosis

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.”

Mind Enough Disease Possession Soil Native American Indian Native American Spiritual Overbearing

Book:Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Care Age Community Youth Source Disease Soil Destination Farming Healer Connectors

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”

People Mind Firsts May Made Enough Father Poor Deals Race Break Support Economy Rich Mets Disease Weak Possession Soil Our Father Tithe Overbearing

Author:Sitting Bull

“The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World