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    Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture, a new earth

    Apr 29, 2018 3 minutes
    Text Jock Gilbert

    … nature is our creation and we shall dominate and subjugate it, for that is our divine destiny. We relinquished integration when we found consciousness and in rejection we move to disintegration.

    The relationship between humanity and the external world is examined and found wanting in Charles Massy’s Call of the Reed Warbler, a powerful book examining Australian landscape conditions.

    Exhaustive, scholarly, eminently readable and deeply personal, the book positions the concept of landscape inextricably within that relationship. An agricultural scientist and farmer, Massy

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