1.   Although her plan to import earnest and intelligent women failed, she did learn how to work the land.

2.   In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity, but not to upset the ecological balance.

3.   Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods.

4.   Many people were forced to give up working the land.

5.   People lived in small communities spread throughout the countryside, under the authority of feudal lords whose land they worked as tenants.

6.   These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work Marginal lands in the coastal districts.

7.   They are the feudal nobility who own the land, and the landless serfs who work the land.

8.   Today most of the women in poor countries work the land.

9.   Working the land was hard, and there was no end to it, despite a Deceptive freedom.

10.   Friends of the Earth believe the land should be worked less hard for food production, using fewer agro-chemicals.