Farming
Farming has been practised on Dartmoor since time immemorial. The dry-stone walls which separate fields and mark boundaries give an idea of the extent to which the landscape has been shaped by farming. There is little or no arable farming within the moor, mostly being given over to livestock farming on account of the thin and rocky soil. Some Dartmoor farms are remote in the extreme.
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“With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
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—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)