Excerpt from The Ruins of Fountains Abbey
It was this command to build monasteries in remote districts which made the Cistercian monks so famous for agriculture. They had to cultivate the soil or die of hunger, and thus became excellent farmers.
And it was from the remote position of the Cistercian monasteries that their ruins are far more extensive than those of other' orders which were built in more populous places, and were more easily pulled down.
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