Nostradamus' quatrain 'Century 2--19' says, "Newcomers will build a place without defenses, occupying a place inhabitable until then. Meadows, houses, fields, towns will be taken with pleasure. Famine, plague, war, extensive arable land."
In "Conversations With Nostradamus (Vol. 1)," by Dolores Cannon, Nostradamus communicates the meaning of this quatrain. It refers to an event he calls a "green" revolution. After the world has gone through its cleansing period (the time of troubles), "people will want to turn to peace. They will want to turn back to the earth, get in touch with the basics of life, and there'll be new lifestyles being developed and explored. He says there was a hint of this in the American social revolution of the early 1970s. People will be developing extended families for support because it will take a larger group of people than just the nuclear family to build new communities, new places. And they will build so everyone can be very much in contact with the earth. They will be very ecology conscious. They will be doing all they can to help heal the earth and to bring in the New Age.....They will be reclaiming land and making it good for crops."