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“For food, we initially relied on nature; then ourselves; and now other people.”

Food Civilization Survival Agriculture Self Reliance Farming Groceries Subsistence Supermarket Subsistence Farming

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Yes, there is relief, too! I'm going to tell you what - it's the earth, your own plot of land that you've cleared by the strength of your arms, with your own fruit trees around it and your own stock in the pasture, everything you need right there - with your own freedom bounded by nothing but the weather, good or bad, rain or drought.”

Nature Freedom Self Sufficiency Subsistence Farming Black Ecology

Book:Masters of the Dew

Source: Masters of the Dew

“Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats.”

Potatoes Social History Dry Humor Subsistence Farming Adirondack

Book:Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Source: Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

“No one can rightly claim one hundred percent consistency in everything he does; yet we may assert that inasmuch as man earnestly tries and intends to withdraw his support from the evils of society, he approaches intentional pacifist living. This appears to be possible only in a fair degree of isolation, a fair degree of economic self-sufficiency, a greatly lowered standard of living, and, in consequence, in a simple, rural environment. Pacifist living at this point becomes identical with subsistence living.”

Pacifism Subsistence Farming

Author:Alfred Jacob