These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.