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In the woody regions of the Perche and the Maine we find all sorts of wooden industries which evidently could only be maintained owing to the communal possession of the woods.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of communal ownership of woods for sustaining wooden industries in rural areas.
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