back-to-the-soil

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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

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   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

   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

   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