Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What can discipline do when tired troops have to make a supreme effort to reach the field of battle at a given hour?”

What chiefly attracts the gardener to the great cities is stable manure; and this is not wanted so much for increasing the richness of the soil--one-tenth part of the manure used by the French gardeners would do for that purpose--but for…

For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better…

As to the yet neutral markets, China will never be a serious customer to Europe: she can produce much cheaper at home; and when she begins to feel a need for goods of European patterns, she will produce them herself.

Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.