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The thunder of the cylinders sounded through the country, became one with the air and the earth, so that earth and air muttered in sympathetic vibration.

Tractors now a protest weapon

Determination of the tractor

 

Tractors have emerged as a symbol of resistance in Ukraine,

Russian tanks and other armored vehicles being towed across fields and villages by Ukrainian tractors

 

Tractors used to block several Dutch highways bringing traffic to a standstill

Very angry Dutch farmers block border between Holland and Germany. Harsh protests in many Dutch cities after politicians' decision to closes dozens of farms and cattle ranches to reduce nitrogen by 30% - 70% to comply with EU regulations on nitrogen pollution.

 

 

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The thunder of the cylinders sounded through the country, became one with the air and the earth, so that earth and air muttered in sympathetic vibration.

John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

 

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. .

John Steinbeck

American writer

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters."

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