Hugh Hammond Bennett Quotes

• Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Life, Nature, Men

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• If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  War, Thinking, Land

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• From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Defense, Economic, Conservation

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain, Men, Agriculture

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• History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Struggle, Men, Erosion

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• Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Race, Land, People

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