Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree. — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
