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back-to-the-soil en · ADJ

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1. Of a movement, lifestyle, or philosophy that advocates for leaving industrialized, urban environments to live a simpler, self-sufficient life in the country.
   • A great back-to-the-soil exhibit next claimed our attensh. 1915, Willard Connelly, “Through Panama to Frisco”, in Boston American:
   • He talks grandly of germinating a "back-to-the-soil movement" that would eclipse the Victory Gardens of World Wars I and II, drive down food prices and feed the nation in times of shortage. 1974, William Greider, “Congressman Seeks to Plow Funds Into Backyard Gardens”, in International Herald Tribune:
   • The seventeen-mile jaunt over the macadamized road is worth while, not only for the purpose of viewing the castle where King Edward the Second was starved in a dungeon, but it affords an opportunity for those interested in the back-to-the-soil movement to witness the conditions under which the English common man does or does not work. 1911, Unattributed, The Automobile, page 504:
   • This is a back-to-the-soil year, and blue jeans are in order. 1943, Unattrivuted, “Hound Tunes In Down on the Farm”, in Vogue:
   • Briers won his broad audience as Tom Good in the classic TV sitcom, The Good Life, a back-to-the-soil sitcom 1993, Robert Shelton, Jordan Times:

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