> "... agriculture brings cumulative improvements to the landscape and a finer adaptation of it to human needs; while mines as a rule pass quickly from riches to exhaustion, from exhaustion to desertion, often within a few generations. Mining thus presents the very image of human discontinuity, here today and gone tomorrow, now feverish with gain, now depleted and vacant.”
#LewisMumford #CityInHistory on #Mining and #TheMiner quoted by #BradWilson #IowaCornFarmer
https://znetwork.org/zblogs/the-culture-of-corn-farming-two-paradigms-by-brad-wilson/