Slash And Burn Quotes

“It's called slash-and-burn. We set fire to the whole field. The old folk did it that way 'stead of sawin' down trees. It works on fallow fields, too, or where plants are done for the year. The fire turns them into fertilizer that goes straight into the ground. It works, but it's hard on the soil. On cities, too, for that matter. You know, Fort Détroit was kind of made out of slash-and-burn.”
― Catherine Leroux