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First released in 1990, the essays in Home Place range from the personal—the search for a childhood vision of pristine grassland, the boy who goes from hunting to respecting wildlife and the living space around him—to theory on land use, environmental law, agriculture, education, and technology as it affects the…
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In 1990, Stan Rowe destroyed my narrow worldview. As a newspaper columnist in Saskatoon, on the Canadian prairie, I wrote about “the environment”. A cold, clinical term environment, wrote Rowe—a thing outside us, separate. Instead, call it what it is: our homeplace, embracing us, part of us.
Rowe’s love for the land transformed the prairie, typically thought to be dull, into the home I, too, loved. Every Winter day I had to walk the trembling aspen paths by the Saskatchewan River. In spring, I had to find that first shock of color, the purple prairie crocus. Now, in summer, I…
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