What Does The N.Z. Farmer Think?
Whatever the hardships of the family life—and they are many—they produce a breed of men and women which I believe civilisation of any kind must have to recruit its blood and spirit. > The English genius, so rich, so hereditary# so constantly renewed, has come mostly "from the farmsteads and fields. Its roots are deep in the old soil. A people utterly removed from the earth, from the book of nature, never looking at the sky above the chimney-pots, knowing nothing of birds and flowers and small beasts, educated in city streets and schools, nimble of mind but not meditative, slick but trivial, restless in mind and body, nervy as they must be in this modern racket of life in towns, cannot 'have-, the quality which belonged and belongs to the farming stock, the old yeoman breed, who face the wind and the Weather and are busy with the earth.—Sir Philip Gibbs, in “Ways of Escape.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 94, 1 June 1949, Page 3
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161What Does The N.Z. Farmer Think? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 94, 1 June 1949, Page 3
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