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“Healthy soil is contingent on the actions of the animals that live on the land; livestock could be made to act upon the soil as wild herds had done; and animal disturbance could benefit as well as harm a landscape.” quote by Judith D. Schwartz — Download Open image

““Healthy soil is contingent on the actions of the animals that live on the land; livestock could be made to act upon the soil as wild herds had done; and animal disturbance could benefit as well as harm a landscape.””

Judith D. Schwartz

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“grasslands, grazing mammals, and pack-hunting predators evolved together. So if domestic herbivores can be managed such that their behavior mimics that of their wild…

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“Steven Apfelbaum, a restoration ecologist in Wisconsin, says that every 1 percent increase in soil carbon holds an additional sixty thousand gallons of water…

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“First you’ve got to change the ideology,” she says. “Until you can show people that they’re losing profits, you can’t get them to change.”

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“from a soil microorganism point of view, a crop monoculture is akin to junk food: “If there’s just wheat or any one thing, it’s…

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“Organisms we can’t see are accorded the same respect as those that are big and flashy or promise to give a nice immediate kick…

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“One farmer I met, Gene Goven of Turtle Lake, North Dakota, put it more succinctly: “You build soil where the roots go—down!”

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“Every field that’s turned into a parking lot or industrial park means more water siphoned off into gutters and culverts and less water in…

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“the problem isn’t the amount of carbon per se—the quantity of carbon on earth is constant—but where that carbon is.”

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“understand that the greatest danger to wildlife was not poaching but habitat destruction—the same thing that ultimately threatened humans.”

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“the planet’s current vegetative cover captures around 3000 EJ of the sun’s energy. This photosynthetic capacity would appear to be sufficient to feed only…

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