1. For a discussion of the Neo-Confucians, see A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, comp. and trans. Wing-tsit Chan (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963), 460–691.
2. Mary Evelyn Tucker, “The Philosophy of Ch’i as an Ecological Cosmology,” in Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans, ed. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Berthrong (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1998), 189.
3. Gary Holthaus, From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), 29–117.
4. Confucius, The Great Learning, in Source Book, 84–94. Also see Confucius, The Great Digest, in The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects, trans. Ezra Pound (New York: New Directions, 1951), 27–91.
5. Confucius, The Analects, trans. David Hinton (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998), xiii, 3, 139–40; Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Eff ectiveness, trans. Sharon Lebell (San Francisco: Harper, 1995), 51.
6. For earlier uses of the logos, see G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with Selected Texts, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 187–212.
7. Richard Hugo, “Distances,” in Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo (New York: Norton, 1984), 434.
8. Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, report prepared by the Global Business Network for the Department of Defense, October 2003, 22 (see also 2, 3, 5, 16–22), available from http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=26231.
1. Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994), 26.
2. Ibid., 8.
3. Margaret Bourke-White, “Dust Changes America,” Nation, May 22, 1935, 597–98.
4. Jackson, Becoming Native, 8.
5. Ivan Illich, Shadow Work (Boston, Mass.: Boyars, 1981), 9, 55–74.
6. On Fetterman, see U.S. Department of the Army, American Military History, 1607–1953 (Washington, D.C., 1956), 282.
7. Letter of Secretary of War, 39th Cong., 2nd sess., Senate Executive Document 15 (Washington, D.C., 1866–1867), 4. For an early account of American injustices to Indians that includes Sherman’s telegram, see George W. Mannypenny, Our Indian Wards (Cincinnati: Clarke, 1880), 195.
8. Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu = Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup’ik Masks and the Stories They Tell, trans. Marie Meade, ed. Ann Fienup-Riordan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996), 11–25.
9. T. S. Eliot, “Choruses from the Rock I,” in Selected Poems (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964), 107.
10. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story (New York: Plume, 1997), 138–39.
11. Miguel A. Altieri, “Enhancing the Productivity of Latin American Traditional Peasant Farming Systems through an Agroecological Approach,” Agroecology in Action, http://www.agroeco.org/fatalharvest/articles/enhancing_prod_la_peasants.html.
12. Ibid. For a perspective that includes Latin America and far beyond, see Miguel A. Altieri, Peter Rosset, and Lori Ann Thrupp, “The Potential of Agroecology to Combat Hunger in the Developing World,” Agroecology in Action, http://www.agroeco.org/doc/potential_of_agroecology.html.
1. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works, trans. Michael Grant (New York: Penguin Books, 1971), 171, 168.
2. Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, trans. Brian Walker (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 96.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature [1836],” in Selected Essays, ed. Larzer Ziff (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 79.
4. Thomas Carlyle, A Carlyle Reader, ed. G. B. Tennyson (Acton, Mass.: Copley, 2000), 24.
5. Jackson, Becoming Native, 24.
6. William Stafford, “Ask Me,” in The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1999), 56.
7. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990), 35.
8. Stafford, “Where We Are,” in Way It Is, 34.
1. Schwartz and Randall, Abrupt Climate Change.
1. Ann Fienup-Riordan, Eskimo Essays: Yup’ik Lives and How We See Them (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 47–48.
2. Ibid., 45–46.
3. Dietrich Bonhoeff er, Letters and Papers from Prison, rev. ed., ed. Eberhard Bethge (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 13.
4. Taisen Nobuhara, The Brilliant Life of Munetada Kurozumi: A Philosopher and Worshipper of the Sun, trans. Tsukasa Sakai and Kazuko Sasage (Tokyo: PMC, 1980), 14.
5. See Richard K. Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), and Fienup-Riordan, Eskimo Essays.
6. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “Sherman’s Final Solution: How Lincoln’s Army ‘Liberated’ the Indians,” 2003, http://www.scvcamp469-nbf.com/sherman.htm.
1. For more stories on Naknek and the area, see Gary Holthaus, “Teaching Eskimo Culture to Eskimo Students: A Special Program for Secondary Schools in Bristol Bay” (proposal to Alaska Department of Education, 1968).
2. For the best summary of Sherrard’s views, see Philip Sherrard, The Eclipse of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science (West Stockbridge, Mass.: Lindisfarne Press, 1987), 15– 30. Also see John Garvey, “An Alienating Culture: No Sense of the Sacred,” Commonweal, November 18, 1994.
3. Emerson, “Nature [1836],” 75.
4. Gary Snyder, Axe Handles (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983), 59–114.
5. Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004), 158.
1. Eliza Jones (lecture, Sitka Summer Symposium, Sitka, Alaska, 1993).
2. Plato, Meno, in Five Dialogues, trans. G. M. A. Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981), 59–88.
3. Confucius, Great Learning, 86–87; Confucius, Analects, 40.
4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, trans. Robin Campbell (New York: Penguin Books, 1969), 151–61.
5. John I. Goodlad, Roger Soder, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik, preface to The Moral Dimensions of Teaching, ed. John I. Goodlad, Roger Soder, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990), xii–xiv; Kenneth A. Sirotnik, “Society, Schooling, Teaching and Preparing to Teach,” in ibid., 308–14.
6. Plato, The Republic, trans. H. D. P. Lee (New York: Penguin Books, 1988), 229, 228–36.
7. Sam Keen, To a Dancing God (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 41.
1. Mary Oliver, “Spring,” in New and Selected Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), 70.
2. Henry George, “The Crime of Poverty” (address delivered in the Opera House, Burlington, Iowa, April 1, 1885), http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/george-henry_crime-of-poverty.html.
3. Gary Snyder, “For the Children,” in Turtle Island (New York: New Directions, 1974), 86.
4. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
1. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, ed. Albert E. Stone (New York: Penguin Books, 1981), 56.
2. Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial (Digital Commons, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2007), http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/26/.
3. Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, trans. C. T. Campion (New York: New American Library, 1953), 124–27.
4. Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith, 2nd ed. (New York: Scribner, 1958), 3–12.
1. Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider, introduction to When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon, ed. Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995), 1.
2. Ibid., 2.
3. Elias Canetti, The Conscience of Words, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984), 6–7, 238–39.
4. William Wordsworth, preface to Lyrical Ballads, in The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Andrew J. George (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932), 791. Wordsworth altered this preface each time the volume was reprinted, from 1800 to 1845. This version of his famous dictum is from the preface to the 1800 edition.
5. Tina Rosenberg, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts after Communism (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), xxiii–xxiv.
6. T. S. Eliot, “East Coker,” in Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 31.
7. Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1979), 405. For his complete argument, see 403–15.
8. Livy quoted in R. H. Barrow, The Romans (New York: Penguin Books, 1979), 86; Cicero, Selected Works, trans. Michael Grant (New York: Penguin Books, 1971), 192, 177–78, 184, 179.
9. Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Renewal of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
10. Lowry quoted in Ted Bernard and Jora Young, The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society, 1997), 143.
11. Bernard and Young, Ecology of Hope, 129–33.
12. Ibid., 139.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 144.
15. Ibid., 146.
16. Ibid., 147.
17. Nelson, Make Prayers, 240–41.
18. Hugo, “Distances,” 434.
1. Confucius, Analects, 139–40.
2. Ibid., 140.
3. Herakleitos and Diogenes, trans. Guy Davenport (Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox Press, 1979), 11; Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 43.
4. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Religion and the Order of Nature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 92–93; Herakleitos and Diogenes, 22.
5. André Padoux, introduction to Vāc: The Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras, trans. Jacques Gontier (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), x, xiv, xi.
6. Nasr, Religion, 37.
7. The Upanishads, trans. by Juan Mascaró (New York: Penguin Books, 1979), 127; Padoux, introduction to Vāc, xi; Fienup-Riordan, Eskimo Essays, 211.
8. Confucius, Great Digest, 33, 20.
9. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, trans. Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (New York: Vintage, 1987), 3.
10. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans. Rex Warner (New York: New American Library, 1961), 17; James Hillman, Healing Fiction (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1983), esp. “What Does the Soul Want?” 85–129; Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, rev. ed. (New York: Washington Square Press, 1985), 121. See also Victor Frankl, The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism (New York: Washington Square Press, 1985), 19.
11. Bill McKibben, The End of Nature (New York: Random House, 2006).
12. Ronald Reagan quoted in Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post, June 10, 2004.
13. N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (New York: Harper and Row, 1989), 58, 59.
14. Ibid., 92–98; N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 33.
15. Momaday, House Made of Dawn, 209, 211, 2, 212.
16. Gregory Cajete, Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (Asheville, N.C.: Kivaki Press, 1994), 42; Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, 106.
17. Simon Ortiz, “Song/Poetry, and Language—Perception and Expression,” in Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, ed. Dean Rader and Janice Gould (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003), 237.
18. Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin Classics, 1976), 205.
1. Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life (New York: Harper, 1936), 11–12.
2. Robert Cummings Neville, Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), 63, 61, 63.
3. Martin Buber, The Way of Response, ed. N. N. Glatzer (New York: Schocken Books, 1966), 64.
4. Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation, trans. Stanley Lombardo (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1982), 53, 54, 56, 61; Herakleitos and Diogenes, 42, 56, 31, 11.
5. Martin Buber, To Hallow This Life: An Anthology, ed. Jacob Trapp (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1958), 90, xiii, 91.
6. Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 51.
7. Bonhoeff er, Letters and Papers, 175–204.
8. Dietrich Bonhoeff er, Selections from His Writings, ed. Eileen Taylor (Springfield, Ill.: Templegate, 1992), 71.
9. Oliver, “Spring,” 70.
10. Schweitzer, Out of My Life, 125.
1. Herman E. Daley, “The Lurking Inconsistency,” Conservation Biology 13 (1999): 693–94.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature [1849],” in Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), 551–52.
3. Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 278.
4. Buber, Way of Response, 63.
5. Kitaro Nishida, An Inquiry into the Good, trans. Masao Abe and Christopher Ives (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990), 3–10, 73–83, 57–59.
6. Robinson Jeffers, “Carmel Point,” in Selected Poems (New York: Vintage, 1965), 102; Robinson Jeff ers, “Their Beauty Has More Meaning,” in ibid., 77; Robinson Jeff ers, “The Inhumanist 5,” in The Double Axe and Other Poems Including Eleven Suppressed Poems (New York: Liveright, 1977), 54.
7. Emerson, “Nature [1836],” 72–73.
8. Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time),” in The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale (New York: Macmillan, 1938), 189.
9. The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952–1998 (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999), 260.
10. T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men,” in Selected Poems, 80.
11. Mary Evelyn Tucker, introduction to The Philosophy of Qi: The Record of Great Doubts by Kaibara Ekken, trans. Mary Evelyn Tucker (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 58–60.
12. Herakleitos and Diogenes, 11.
13. Mary Evelyn Tucker, Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 31–51, 136.
14. Ibid., 138.
15. Ibid., 139, 140.
16. Nelson, Make Prayers, 240.
17. T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” in Four Quartets, 15–16.
18. Young-chan Ro, The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 106–8.
19. Buber quoted in Maurice Friedman, Martin Buber and the Eternal (New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986), 149.
20. Nobuhara, Munetada Kurozumi, 49–50.
21. Johan Bojer, The Great Hunger, trans. Charles Archer and William John Alexander Worster (Project Gutenberg, 2006), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2943.
22. Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1956), 267; Berry, Dream of the Earth, 195; Nishida, Inquiry into the Good,
23. Koyukon elder quoted in Nelson, Make Prayers, 241.
24. The Wisdom of Confucius, ed. and trans. Lin Yutang (New York: Modern Library, 1994), 124.
25. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838,” in Essays and Lectures, 77.
1. Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (New York: Knopf, 2007), 16.