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The land continues to go out of culture, while the problem of the day is to render culture more and more intensive.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The land continues to go out of culture, while the problem of the day is to render culture more and more intensive.”
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Kropotkin points out the contradiction between the decline of cultivated land and the need for more intensive agricultural practices.
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