We must not be content merely to advocate the principles necessary to the ecological and economic health of rural America. We must take care also to understand that such a healing involves the enactment of those principles by millions of unique individual farmers upon millions of unique small places. This is the paramount task of local adaptation, a requirement imposed be nature upon every creature, but from we humans, who in fact know better, have to our great cost and increasing danger exempted ourselves.
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(Quoted from All Animals)
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