Followers describe the Nearings as the "senior gurus" of the back-to-the-land movement.
Members of the 1970s back-to-the-land movement used the books as a basis to return to lives of simplicity.
They brought values and ideals of the back-to-the-land movement.
After a few years of teaching and backpacking in Europe, she became attracted to the back-to-the-land movement and communal living.
This move towards natural materials coincided with the popularity of the back-to-the-land movement.
When the energy crunch met the back-to-the-land movement in the 1970's, one of the byproducts was a demand for wood stoves.
They are working on an oral history-style book on the back-to-the-land movement in that area.
Agrarianism is similar but not identical with the back-to-the-land movement.
The publication paved the way for the "back-to-the-land movement" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
That was especially true here in Vermont, ground zero of the back-to-the-land movement of hippie times.