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by thrdbndndn 1474 days ago
Jimmy Carter grew up in Alaska? Never heard of that.

I can't find a single occurrence of "alaska" in his Wikipedia article. Got any ref?

Edit: I don't mind the downvote, but could someone explain if I missed something obvious?

2 comments

Read the comment again ... slowly -- mod has a dense writing style that may be difficult to comprehend on first reading. People can actually live "close to the land" all over the world. Farmers, for example. I think a few may even be found in Georgia.
"Close to the land" does not mean "close to that particular land."
Sorry for being obtuse, I genuinely don't get what that means. Don't almost every single person live close to the land?
Living "close to the land" means to be familiar and comfortable with, and reliant on, what "the land" (that is, nature) has to offer. The opposite of a city-dweller, basically.
> "the land" = nature

Thanks for your kind explanation. This is the part I didn't know.

In my defence, I did check the dictionary [1] but didn't find anything to suggest land means nature/rural/etc.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/land#Noun

Carter had a fairly rural upbringing.