English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Progress

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new farming had taken two mutually beneficial things - grazing animals and fertilizing fields - and separated them to create two massive industrial-scale problems ... farms with thousands of animals had more muck than their land could possibly accommodate, while crop farmers now had no animals, and thus no muck to fertilize plants

English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Nostalgia

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As I sat in the back of the tractor watching the seagulls, it felt as if Grandad and the seagulls behind his plough were part of the same whole, the one as true as the other. They both had timeless claims on the earth; they both belonged to the same cycle in that landscape.

The Shepherd's Life

The popularity of this book says a lot about it, and more about the hearts and minds of its readers.


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The Hill Farmer by Gareth Wyn Jones
A Shepherd's Watch by David Kennard