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The man who created Paradise : a fable

Title: The man who created Paradise : a fable / Gene Logsdon ; photographs by Gregory Spaid ; foreword by Wendell Berry.
Author: Logsdon, Gene.
Publication: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2001.

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Description

ix, 58 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

"This fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked up from the drudgery of his factory job to contemplate one of the bleakest places in America - the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio - and saw in them a vision of Eden. Using an ancient bulldozer, he carved, acre by acre, a jewel of a farm. He dug ponds where there had been raw subsoil and smoothed hillsides to plant trees where only ragged weeds had grown.
When others join Wally Spero, the region's farms, people, and towns are reborn." "Environmental restoration is the task of our time. No government agency can do all this for us, for much of what needs to be done must begin with the loving attention of individuals and proceed with their devotion.".
"The Man Who Created Paradise is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing through the course of some twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles. Humans can return the earth to Paradise - if they really want to."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

0821414070 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2001033920

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Columbia University Libraries