Sublime

. . . a steep winding-down of the size of the industrial economy. It strips away its burdens and complications, nurses the human ecology back to health, builds local competence and discovers a sense of place. . . . This is managed descent. . . . The shock is as gentle and as survivable as foresight can make

Guests can tour the Dismal Swamp now, for wildlife or hiking, or as one of the stops on a driving route that reaches into where the Maroons once were. You can read about their lives on a historical marker. The water is a deep golden color, pure and healthy and once prized as such by ship crews. Notwithstanding the definitiveness of a sign, this is

Richard Powers

But this desire for advance, like the pointed arch in architecture, was for a different moral horizon than just a drive for the new—it sought to build a space where time and eternity could cohabitate.

Indeed, with the establishment of the PRC, even pioneer reformers, such as the doyen of Chinese rural studies, Fei Xiaotong, who had sounded the clarion call for rural recovery early in his studies in the 1930s of the intimate relations of the Chinese peasant and the soil (xiangtu Zhongguo), became intoxicated by the dominant approach of subjugatin

Pour l’heure, dans ces alentours, la majeure partie de la contrée n’est pas propriété privée ; le paysage n’appartient à personne, et le marcheur jouit d’une liberté relative. Mais sans doute un jour viendra où il sera cloisonné en soi-disant terrains d’agrément, dans lesquels seuls quelques-uns goûteront un plaisir restreint et exclusif – quand se

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”