Their words
“It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sins against it.”
Source: Interview with the Atlanta Journal, 17 March 1940
Context Interviewed by the Atlanta Journal late in his life, he pressed his case that the South's economic recovery depended on more sustainable farming.
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