Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003980436/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 30 of
30
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "Gene Logsdon's essays on farming and the American dream, on rural society and the need for agricultural reform, have made him one of America's most important critics of large-scale farming. In At Nature's Pace Logsdon explains why today's single-crop megafarms - and the urban communities that depend on them - are headed toward an economic and biological crisis. As the environmental movement matures, its work with wilderness and with the preservation of biodiversity will need to be balanced with proposals for appropriate human uses of the planet. Agriculture and other issues involving rural life can serve as both practical examples and valuable metaphors for us in developing a sustainable human life on Earth. Logsdon travels to Amish country, to a community whose care of the land and integration of business with family life offers important lessons. Later he discovers throughout America a renaissance of agricultural awareness - suburban minifarms, organic farmers, and urban gardeners. "I hope readers of these essays will come to share the vision I had as I wrote them," he says, "that sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward the earth's destruction what monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and arts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose return to the public mind." Logsdon reminds us that healthy agricultural practices can work only at nature's pace, grounded in a reverence for the land and for biological efficiency that transcends technological shortsightedness. These essays together offer both inspiration and instruction for nurturing life on Earth.".
- catalog contributor b5732439.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "As the environmental movement matures, its work with wilderness and with the preservation of biodiversity will need to be balanced with proposals for appropriate human uses of the planet. Agriculture and other issues involving rural life can serve as both practical examples and valuable metaphors for us in developing a sustainable human life on Earth.".
- catalog description "Gene Logsdon's essays on farming and the American dream, on rural society and the need for agricultural reform, have made him one of America's most important critics of large-scale farming. In At Nature's Pace Logsdon explains why today's single-crop megafarms - and the urban communities that depend on them - are headed toward an economic and biological crisis.".
- catalog description "Green fields, red ink -- For amber waves of green -- Our hidden wound -- The failure of agricultural education -- Traditional farming -- Knowing one's place -- The future: more farms, not fewer -- An ecological sane farm -- Amish economics -- A horse-drawn economy -- The barn raising -- Not so friendly persuasion -- A patriarch passes -- A woodcutter's pleasures -- The pond at the center of the universe -- My wilderness.".
- catalog description "Later he discovers throughout America a renaissance of agricultural awareness - suburban minifarms, organic farmers, and urban gardeners. "I hope readers of these essays will come to share the vision I had as I wrote them," he says, "that sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward the earth's destruction what monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and arts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose return to the public mind."".
- catalog description "Logsdon reminds us that healthy agricultural practices can work only at nature's pace, grounded in a reverence for the land and for biological efficiency that transcends technological shortsightedness. These essays together offer both inspiration and instruction for nurturing life on Earth.".
- catalog description "Logsdon travels to Amish country, to a community whose care of the land and integration of business with family life offers important lessons.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 208 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "At nature's pace.".
- catalog identifier "0679427414".
- catalog isFormatOf "At nature's pace.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "At nature's pace.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "630/.973 20".
- catalog subject "Agriculture United States.".
- catalog subject "Amish United States.".
- catalog subject "Country life United States.".
- catalog subject "S441 .L613 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Green fields, red ink -- For amber waves of green -- Our hidden wound -- The failure of agricultural education -- Traditional farming -- Knowing one's place -- The future: more farms, not fewer -- An ecological sane farm -- Amish economics -- A horse-drawn economy -- The barn raising -- Not so friendly persuasion -- A patriarch passes -- A woodcutter's pleasures -- The pond at the center of the universe -- My wilderness.".
- catalog title "At nature's pace : farming and the American dream / Gene Logsdon.".
- catalog type "text".