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"A succinct and engaging account of the epic effort to create an agricultural landscape that is more socially sound, economically just, and environmentally responsible."--Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
"An important addition to American environmental history."--Roderick Frazier Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind
"A vibrant and engrossing history."--John Saltmarsh, author of Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography
"A Green and Permanent Land begins with a regional crisisthe Dust Bowland ends with the global crisis. In between is a story of how a small number of soil scientists and agrarians imagined an agriculture that featured production without decline to set against the exhaustive tendencies of industrialism. . . . This book will be read by all those with an interest in agrarian thought. It is an illuminating and useful volume."Technology and Culture
"Beeman and Pritchard succeed in intertwining agriculture and ecology, topics often portrayed as antagonists."Great Plains Research
"A valuable account of extraordinary events in the history of American farming. Beeman and Pritchard present fascinating stories of agricultural visionaries striving to better the world around them. This combination of environmental history and prescriptive remedy for our agricultural ills provides thought-provoking reading."Isis
"This is a wonderfully crafted book that should be widely read. Hopefully, it will spawn a host of studies that will more deeply investigate the intersection of agricultural and environmental ideas. Anyone interested in doing so will find the model here."Florida Historical Quarterly
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