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Hugh Hammond Bennett Biography

Hugh Hammond Bennett (April 15, 1881 – July 7, 1960) was a pioneer in the field of soil conservation in the United States of America. He founded and headed the Soil Conservation Service, a federal agency now referred to as the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

Erosion, Men, Struggle, Terms, Use, Wrest

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Human, Life, Man, Men, Nature, Utterly

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

Civilized, Land, People, Race

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

Follow, Land, Production, Thinking, War, Willing

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

Agriculture, Implement, Men, Rain, Soil, Turned

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

Agree, Conservation, Defense, Economic, Health, Social

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