Northwest Pastor

Regard For The Soil: A Poem by Peter Maurin: "Regard For The Soil by Peter Maurin



1. Andrew Nelson Lytle says:

The escape from industrialism

is not in socialism

or in sovietism.



2. The answer lies

in a return to a society

where agriculture is practised

by most of the people.



3. It is in fact impossible

for any culture

to be sound and healthy

without a proper regard

for the soil,

no matter

how many urban dwellers

think that their food

comes from groceries

and delicatessens

or their milk from tin cans.



4. This ignorance

does not release them

from a final dependence

upon the farm."