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Tom Graves: “The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But you destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets in every city in the country.
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Tom Graves
Georgia

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Emphasizes the importance of agriculture for urban sustainability.

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