“The advantages of grass farming showed up in the deepening colour of the soil, in the miraculously increasing yields, in the evidence of the farm’s account books, in the flavour and tenderness of the meat, in the sleekness and shininess of the coats of our cattle, and the brightness of their eyes, even in the changing, ever-augmenting beauty of the landscape as grass and legumes healed over the old gullies, the poor spots in already poor fields, cleared the once muddy streams, brought life to dead or dying springs, and saved the rainfall which made the very trees more green and luxuriant in appearance.”
– Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm, 1947