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.As a small statement of appreciation, I dedicate this book to him.There are other friends who have been of immense importance for their intellectual contribution, their living example, or both, including: Tanya Berry, David Ehrenfeld, Terry Evans, Rick and Joyce Fent, Leland Lorenzen, Steve Marglin, Gary Nabhan, Conn Nugent, David Orr, J.Stan Rowe, Arnold Schultz, Charlie Sing, Douglas Sloan, John Todd, Charles Washburn, Don Worster, Angus Wright, and Arthur Zajonc.Colleagues at The Land Institute Jon Piper, Peter Kulakow, and Marty Bender, one way or another before and during the preparation of this effort have helped give shape to these ideas.Eight to ten interns come through The Land Institute each year to spend forty-three weeks in reading, thinking, discussing, and doing the necessary physical work around the place.These smart, idealistic college graduates are indispensable in the energy and inspiration as well as the thinking they provide.They are at once a barometer of where the culture has gone and a source of ideas as to where it should go.The core of the book was the 1991 Blazer Lecture at the University of Kentucky.Sam Hileman made numerous valuable improvements.Linda Okeson at The Land Institute typed various versions of the manuscript more times than the word processor can remember, and now and then would say, “Do you want to say this?”The Pew Charitable Trust, through its Conservation Scholars program, provided funding that has made it possible to begin implementation of some of these ideas in a small Kansas town.By being able to enact these ideals in a real physical place, more ideas have emerged which have informed much of the content of this book.PrologueWhen one of my great grandfathers swept into Kansas with the white tide around May 30, 1854, the first day he and the others could legally do so, the day the Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed by Franklin Pierce, our nation had fewer than 30 million people.Had national policy at that time been directed toward urging all Americans to become “native” to this place, the nature of our relationship to the land today would be very different from what it is.Today, too many people and the products of the technology explosion, interacting with our desires and our perceived (as well as bona fide) needs, dictate the terms of that relationship.It was always changing.By the time one of my grandfathers (the above-mentioned great grandfather’s son-in-law) made it to Kansas from the Shenandoah in 1877, the standard we might have employed for an 1854 “nativeness” was already rapidly disappearing.The great herd of bison was nearly finished off.The Santa Fe Trail, at age fifty-six, as an official highway of commerce, would soon become totally irrelevant.And by the time that grandfather died in 1925, 45 million acres of pristine prairie had been broken by tractors and horses and planted to wheat.I was born eleven years later, at the height of the Dust Bowl era, which was a consequence of that Great Plowing.It was an era in which the heart of our continent sent its finest soil particles far overhead to Washington and even to ships at sea.It has never been our national goal to become native to this place.It has never seemed necessary even to begin such a journey.And now, almost too late, we perceive its necessity.Unfortunately, the nature of the nativeness toward which we must work has been not merely altered but severely compromised.Part of the reason is that we have eight and a half times as many people in our country as we did when my grandfather was born.Perhaps even worse, the forces that have given us our modern problems—the ozone hole and global warming, acid rain, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, soil erosion and loss of family farms, and so on—gain power by the decade.Destruction is occurring at an accelerating pace.It has all happened so fast (more than 80 percent of all the oil ever burned has been burned in my lifetime) and it is going to get worse—half of Mexico’s population is under fifteen years of age, ready for a major explosion.The world is slated to add one billion people in the 1990s alone [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]