Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years .. ha

[Reedtb2@cs.com]

Dear Keith, Steve  and all:

I have long considered the booklet

Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years
by
W. C. Lowdermilk

one of the all time greats of renewable biomass literature.  He wrote it just
after the U.S. conquered the dustbowl, to our everlasting credit.  Thanks for
the reference to it at

            
http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010113topsoilandciv/010113topsoil.toc.htm
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which I have just reread with pleasure.  I'm thinking the the Biomass Energy
Foundation should distribute it (free?) with our books as we do with Trees by
Jean Giono.

Conquest of the Land...   ends with a blessing  

THOU SHALT INHERIT THE HOLY EARTH AS A FAITHFUL STEWARD, CONSERVING ITS
RESOURCES AND PRODUCTIVITY FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. THOU SHALT
SAFEGUARD THY FIELDS FROM SOIL EROSION, THY LIVING WATERS FROM DRYING UP, THY
FORESTS FROM DESOLATION, AND PROTECT THY HILLS FROM OVERGRAZING BY THY HERDS,
THAT THY DESCENDANTS MAY HAVE ABUNDANCE FOREVER.

and a curse...
IF ANY SHALL FAIL IN THIS STEWARDSHIP OF THE LAND THY FRUITFUL FIELDS SHALL
BECOME STERILE STONY GROUND AND WASTING GULLIES, AND THY DESCENDANTS SHALL
DECREASE AND LIVE IN POVERTY OR PERISH FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH

which we should all take to heart.

TOM REED           BEF PRESS




In a message dated 1/18/01 6:31:38 PM Mountain Standard Time,
keith@journeytoforever.org writes:

http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010113topsoilandciv/010113topsoil.toc.html

Dr. Thomas B. Reed
President - The Biomass Energy Foundation
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Reedtb2@cs.com;  303 278 0558;  www.woodgas.com

Research Director,
The Community Power Corporation,
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