Quote#Wisdom
There are now practical maraichers who venture to maintain that if…
Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899).
English (original)
there are now practical maraîchers who venture to maintain that if all the food, animal and vegetable, necessary for 4,500,000 inhabitants of the departments of Seine and had to be grown in their own territory (3,520 square miles), it could be grown without resorting to any other methods of culture than those already in use
— Peter Kropotkin
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