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Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-discredited theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century. The phrase was employed as a summation of the theory by Charles Dana Wilber: God speed the plow. ... By this wonderful provision, which is only man's mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains ... [the plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden. ... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow.

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  • La pioggia segue l'aratro (it)
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  • Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-discredited theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century. The phrase was employed as a summation of the theory by Charles Dana Wilber: God speed the plow. ... By this wonderful provision, which is only man's mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains ... [the plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden. ... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow. (en)
  • La pioggia segue l'aratro (in inglese: Rain follows the plow) è il nome convenzionale dato ad una teoria della climatologia, oggi del tutto screditata, che fu popolare nel West americano alla fine del XIX secolo. La premessa basilare della teoria era che gli insediamenti umani, in particolare l'agricoltura condotta nei poderi, portava a un cambiamento climatico permanente nelle regioni aride o semi-aride, rendendole più umide. La teoria venne ampiamente promossa negli anni 1870, come giustificazione per la colonizzazione delle Grandi Pianure, una regione nota in precedenza come il "". Secondo la teoria, maggiori insediamenti umani nella regione avrebbero provocato nel corso del tempo una maggiore piovosità, rendendo la terra più fertile e lussureggiante con l'aumentare della popolazione. C (it)
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