While making hay, I recalled a quote I read somewhere about grass and Sampson...I found it and here it is.
"I have always had real affection for grass. It seems to stand for quietness and strength. I believe that the quietness and strength of grass should be, must be permanently a part of our agriculture if this nation is to have the strength it will need in the future. A countryside shorn and stripped of thick, green grass, it seems to me, is weakened just as Sampson was. An agriculture without grass loses a primary source of strength."
- Henry A. Wallace in 1940 (quoted in H.A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture 1992:5)
For an intersting read on grass based ag, see:
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/foodshed/pubsntools/grass.htm
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2 comments:
Nice quote.
Agriculture, for the most part, is grass here. It's hard not to see the beauty in it, and worry over it, if you raise cattle in the Great Plains.
I think those who do appreciate grass, where others do not. Some hunters do, but rarely others.
By the way, have you seen the old film "Grass", about the migration of a Central Asian group based on obtaining grass for their cattle?
Around here, grass isn't even a "real" crop...one is not "really" farming if you don't have a couple of half- a- million dollar combines and sprayers and stuff and 5000 acres in corn and beans. It's sad.
I will check out the grass movie. Thanks!
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