Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

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361 Notes Editor’s Introduction 1. Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World (New York: Penguin, 2008). 2. E. Mendelson, “Auden and God,” New York Review of Books, December 6, 2007. Preface 1. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949), 221. 2. In this regard, I have found Brian Walker and David Salt’s Resilience Thinking (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006) particularly useful. Theological Reflections while Castrating Calves 1. Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976), 18 (emphasis mine). 2. Garry Wills, What Paul Meant (Peabody, Mass.: Viking Press, 2006). 3. Tom Wessels, The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future (Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont Press, 2006). 4. Quoted in Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), 152. On Behalf of American Farmers 1. Stephen H. Schneider, The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival (New York: Plenum Press, 1976). 2. E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (New York: Harper and Row, 1973). 3. William Lockeretz, “The Lessons of the Dust Bowl,” American Scientist 66 (1978): 560–69. 4. William A. Albrecht, The Albrecht Papers, ed. Charles Walters (Raytown, Mo.: Acres USA, 1975), 63. 362 Notes to Pages 30–51 Low-Input Farming in Practice 1. E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), 105. 2. Wendell Berry, preface to Meeting the Expectations of the Land, ed. W. Jackson, W. Berry, and B. Coleman (Berkeley, Calif.: North Point Press, 1984), x. 3. William Lockeretz, “Open Questions in Sustainable Agriculture,” American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 3 (1988): 174–81. 4. Stuart Hill, quoted in Carole Giangrande and Lister Sinclair, Culture and Agriculture (Montreal, Que.: Canadian Broadcasting Company Transcripts, 1987). 5. Jim Bender, “How to Convert to Pesticide Free Farming,” Acres U.S.A. 19 (1989): 19, 31. 6. E. F. Schumacher, Good Work (New York: Harper and Row, 1979). 7. William Ball, “Crop Rotations for North Dakota,” North Dakota State University Extension Service, Extension Bulletin 48 (1987). 8. Walter Goldstein, “Thoughts on Drought Proofing Your Farm: A Biodynamic Approach,” Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Bulletin 1 (1989). 9. V. L. Anderson, “The Fertility Value of Livestock Manure,” in Proceedings of Beef Production Field Day, September 8–9, 1988 (Carrington, N.D.: North Dakota State University , Carrington Research Extension Center, 1988). 10. Herbert H. Koepf, Roderick Shouldice, and Walter Goldstein, The Biodynamic Farm (New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1989). 11. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. George Bull (London: Penguin Books, 1999), 12. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid., 22–23. 14. Ibid., 81. 15. Ibid., 73. A Transcendent Vision 1. Scouring is a diarrhea that calves pick up easily from one another in cold, wet conditions. It can cause them to dehydrate rather quickly, and death is not uncommon. Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Agriculture 1. David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (San Francisco: BerrettKoehler Publishers, 1995). 2. Niles Eldredge, Dominion: Can Nature and Culture Co-Exist? (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995), 168. 3. Ibid., 93. 4. Ibid., 155–56. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid., 158. 7. Ibid. 8. Miguel A. Altieri, ed., Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1987). 363 Notes to Pages 51–58 9. S. B. Hecht, “The Evolution of Agroecological Thought,” in Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture, ed. Miguel A. Altieri, 1–19 (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1987). 10. Eugene P. Odum, “Properties of Ecosystems,” in Agricultural Ecosystems: Unifying Concepts, ed. Richard Lowrance, Benjamin R. Stinner, and Garfield J. House (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984), 9. 11. Odum, “Properties of Ecosystems,” 8. 12. Paul B. Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics (London: Routledge, 1995). 13. R. Edward Grumbine, Ghost Bears: Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992). 14. Korten, When Corporations Rule, 234. 15. Ervin Laszlo, Choice: Evolution or Extinction? A Thinking Person’s Guide to Global Issues (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 27. 16. Ibid. 17. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993), 49. 18. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776; repr., New York: Random House, 1994). 19. See the work of William D. Heffernan on the evolution of consolidation in...