“We are returned to mystery and the power of cooperating with life—rather than, as so often now, working against it.”

— Elsa Gidlow

On organic farming, in Belasco, Warren James, 2007, "The Organic Paradigm" http://books.google.com/books?id=4-8Tcsb2PHwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT63#v=onepage&q&f=false, Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801473292, p. 69.

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Canadian-American poet 1898–1986

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