Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"The bonanza farmers are all gone now, thank the Lord, and here's
where we small farmers come into our own. It won't be many years
before the whole valley will be farmed in patches like mine. Look
at what we're doing! Worked-out land that had ceased to grow
wheat, and we turn the water on, treat the soil decently, and see
our orchards!


"We've got the water--from the mountains, and from under the
ground. I was reading an account the other day. All life depends
on food. All food depends on water. It takes a thousand pounds of
water to produce one pound of food; ten thousand pounds to
produce one pound of meat. How much water do you drink in a year?
About a ton. But you eat about two hundred pounds of vegetables
and two hundred pounds of meat a year--which means you consume
one hundred tons of water in the vegetables and one thousand tons
in the meat--which means that it takes eleven hundred and one
tons of water each year to keep a small woman like you going."

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