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4 . the country exports more agricultural and food products: “Colom-
bia,” OEC; “Colombia,” World Bank.
43. Pahom, an ambitious peasant: Leo Tolstoy, “How Much Land Does
a Man Need?” Literature Network, accessed November 3 , 0 7 , http://www.
online-literature.com/tolstoy/ 738 /; Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other
Tales, trans. L. and A. Maude (Project Gutenberg, EBook # 6 7 , last modified
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. burning the remains of humble creatures: Carl Sagan, Billions &
Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (New York:
Random House, 997 ).
. The formation of liquid energy: David Montgomery, Dirt: The Ero-
sion of Civilizations (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 007 ),
99.
3. returned a thousand barrels: Charles Hall, Jessica Lambert, and Ste-
phen Balogh, “EROI of Different Fuels and the Implications for Society,”
Energy Policy 64 ( January 0 4 ): 4 –, https://doi.org/ 0 . 0 6 /j.enpol. 0 3. 0
. 049.
4. dirt is Earth’s protective skin: Montgomery, Dirt, 3.
. 22,000 different soil types: Ibid.
6. Roots extending three to seventeen feet: J. E. Weaver, “Classification
of Root Systems of Forbs of Grassland and a Consideration of Their Sig-
nificance,” Ecology 39 , no. 3 ( July 9 8 ): 393 – 40 , http://digitalcommons.unl.edu
/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article= 480 &context=agronomyfacpub.
7. patchwork of ill-conceived laws: Murray Benedict, Farm Policies of the
United States, 1790 – 1950 : A Study of Their Origins and Development (New York:
Octagon Books, 966 ), chap. .
8. moving farther inland: Andrew Smith, Food in America: The Past,
Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal, vol. (Santa Bar-
bara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 0 7 ), .
9. unproductive to the practitioners: Montgomery, Dirt, 3 ; George
Washington, Letters from His Excellency George Washington to Arthur Young,
Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: Containing an Account of His
Husbandry with His Opinions on Various Questions in Agriculture, and Many