It was hard from the start, the back-to-the-land dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holding on to Mark Fidrych] Reference

Also a culture hero to many for his back-to-the-land politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference

Bolton Hall marks the start of our modern back-to-the-land movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

The Farm started out, in 1971, as a religious commune, a back-to-the-land refuge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans] Reference

Being raised by back-to-the-land hippies turned Novella Carpenter into a cynic about the pastoral life.    From Wordnik.com.  [New paperbacks about living off the land] Reference

And that's why you get that affinity between the hippies and the puritan back-to-the-land type stuff in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels Without a Cause] Reference

The Carpenters are what some have described as "back-to-the-land" Christians, typical among the quiverfull community.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Full Is Your Quiver?] Reference

My parents retired to California to farm, and in the 1970s they were a part of what was called the back-to-the-land movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Work On Farms, I'm a Criminal, And Perhaps I'm A Valuable Member Of Society, Too] Reference

The back-to-the-land movement in the late 1960s and 1970s saw people clearing space in their lives to make room for the muse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse as Moment and Place] Reference

Palestinian Arab culture is sufficiently distinctive for certain elements of it to have been appropriated by back-to-the-land Israelis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence] Reference

I guess this says more about my emotional attachment to good cheese and my dad's generation's back-to-the-land movement than anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: "No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese."] Reference

Thoreau, the Nearings, and back-to-the-land hippies valued nature, hard work, time with family and friends, and wide-open spaces where they could contemplate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everett Sizemore: The Simple Life: A Value Liberals Share With Libertarians] Reference

Some are rural back-to-the-land types -- the remnants of the 'Sixties -- Some of theses are Greens; some are self-described "Left/Populists" or "Socialists".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manifesto for Paleo-Progressives] Reference

Since he is completely pessimistic and offers no hope to avoid the peak oil end of society as we know it, he does like your survivalist, back-to-the-land, back-up plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [no, not THAT kind of hummer] Reference

Brand's Turq philosophy embraces nuclear power, genetically engineered food, and other science-based tenets that might turn his back-to-the-land brethren blue in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzword: Turq] Reference

So if you've got those back-to-the-land fantasies but your town is more Wal-Mart than Walden Pond, don't despair: The Backyard Homestead will help you make your dreams come true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Trueman: Hop On The Homegrown Bandwagon] Reference

This isn't about back-to-the-land, for many or most of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference

Will this be the start of a new demographic trend of back-to-the-land?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The idea tunes right into every bourgeois back-to-the-land fantasy from The Good Life on.    From Wordnik.com.  [GREENIE WATCH] Reference

I haven't much faith in the back-to-the-land movement, as city life spoils men for farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Agriculture in Alberta] Reference

He envisions the future on Eaarth as a kind of communitarian back-to-the-land agrarian utopia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine] Reference

Her mom and pop were back-to-the-land types who raised her in small towns in the rural northwest.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A young social worker reflects on her back-to-the-land childhood and how it has shaped her worldview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

"On first glance, back-to-the-land hippies and dot-com entrepeneurs might not seem much alike," begins the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog] Reference

His gospel is books authored by the local-food, back-to-the-land demigods Michael Pollan and Wendell Berry.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference

Want to come and make some coffee in a cute little house so we can all talk about how back-to-the-land we are?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Which feels like the back-to-the-land hippie farmhouses where I misspent some of the most fun times of my youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Lucas Foglia's back-to-the-land series "Re-Wilding," which incorporates Mennonite, early American, and hippie cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Appealing as the island's back-to-the-land culture might be, it is a far cry from the way the couple currently live, he adds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

‘stunt’ — for there is no other term which suits its sensational character — rises a feeble back-to-the-land propaganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

Looking through my collection of older back-to-the-land accounts, I see several of them claim that we can't depend on foreign oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

I lived without power for extended periods (couple of years) back in my back-to-the-land hippie days but we were ready for it then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh] Reference

Grant says many people are drawn to goat-owning by the back-to-the-land food movement that disdains milk and meat from large factory farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

HumCPR may have been formed by property developers and realtors, but its supporting ranks include plenty of SoHum back-to-the-land enviros.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

A back-to-the-land emphasis on painting scenes of rural French life, often doing their artwork outdoors.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference