By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades,

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.

While this is part of his job, he still takes time to do everything that he can before he returns to his work.

That was a long time ago, friend.

Allen and I were wallflowers among the lordly and academic figures,