# Quote — Mark Kurlansky, Cod

> Whatever steps are taken, one of the great obstacles to restoring cod stocks off of Newfoundland is an almost pathological collective denial of what has happened. Newfoundlanders seem prepared to believe anything other than that they have killed off nature’s bounty.

- Author: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md)
- Book: [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md)
- Page: 204
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky#Cod:_A_Biography_of_the_Fish_That_Changed_the_World_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/whatever-steps-are

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> The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/the-american-revolution.md)

> In trade, it is an almost infallible natural law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping ground for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/in-trade-it.md)