Two deeply opposed worldviews. Are we the central, active agents in our own story, actively rebuilding and improving our environment? Or simply organisms in that environment that need to fit inside it like any other? @CharlesCMann pic.twitter.com/kgbF1Ja1hI

The isolation of rural families, before the telephone and mass media, is hard to comprehend today. (A story from the early life of Norman Borlaug, who was called “Norm boy” as a kid) pic.twitter.com/ccT9jqJtrZ