Spencer Hatch credited as playing...
Self - Narrator
- Spencer Hatch: It's hard to believe in miracles. But a man can have confidence in what he can see with his own eyes - what he can do with his own hands. Now, new abundance in the land - new confidence in the future. Less money in his pocket than his city cousins - but when his fields are full, more security, and no worries about the plant shutting down, or getting too old for the job.
- Spencer Hatch: And in their possession, something more valuable than all our money - our only real wealth: The land. Different concepts of living, but one thing in common, and one thing sure: Their future and ours, inevitable rooted together in the fertility of the earth. The only earth we'll ever have, that we must save to save ourselves.
- Spencer Hatch: In Mexico or Missouri, it is the same: The only crop poor land will grow is poor people - and poor people make a poor world.
- Spencer Hatch: Learn to carve the wool, and spin the yarn. Learn to carve and spin and weave the wool - the ancient and pleasurable arts of the loom. Learn to make beautiful things you can't afford to buy, and sell the things you can't afford to keep... Women everywhere want pretty clothes. Learning to make your own makes sense, saves dollars - and it can be very interesting.
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- Emily Hatch: [reading message brought by carrier pigeon] "United Nations today named as special advisor to the food and agricultural conference Dr. Spencer Hatch, YMCA rural reconstruction expert, known for his successful rehabilitation work among backward people in Mexico."
- Spencer Hatch: It's always backward people! They never seem to think about backward land... It is the condition of people's land that determines the condition of their living.