The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
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Lebaneseamerican and nature writer of 30 books, a franciscan brother and a contemplative garden designer. Hes received Macarthur Fellowship and the land literary award for nonfiction, and he was included in book me readers list of visionaries changing the world. His latest book, the current book here that its a pleasure to read and itll help you to understand more about it gave him a scout killer all year. Its called the garbage spirits. The past present and future of moscone. And before we go into it a little further, gary, i want to i want to ive learned so much reading the book and reading about you and meeting with you. And you have, you know, tons of knowledge, but how did you get from in your at becoming an ethnobotanist botanist and studying native plants and then moving towards a god . What was that trip for you . Well, thats a great question and i think the easiest way to sum it up is that i was very interested in local food when was younger. And as i got older, had more arthr
So, gary, paul is a lebaneseamerican and nature writer of 30 books, a franciscan brother and a contemplative garden designer. Hes received Macarthur Fellowship and the land literary award for nonfiction, and he was included in book me readers list of visionaries changing the world. His latest book, the current book here that its a pleasure to read and itll help you to understand more about it gave him a scout killer all year. Its called the garbage spirits. The past present and future of moscone. And before we go into it a little further, gary, i want to i want to ive learned so much reading the book and reading about you and meeting with you. And you have, you know, tons of knowledge, but how did you get from in your at becoming an ethnobotanist botanist and studying native plants and then moving towards a god . What was that trip for you . Well, thats a great question and i think the easiest way to sum it up is that i was very interested in local food when was younger. And as i got o
So, gary, paul is a lebaneseamerican and nature writer of 30 books, a franciscan brother and a contemplative garden designer. Hes received Macarthur Fellowship and the land literary award for nonfiction, and he was included in book me readers list of visionaries changing the world. His latest book, the current book here that its a pleasure to read and itll help you to understand more about it gave him a scout killer all year. Its called the garbage spirits. The past present and future of moscone. And before we go into it a little further, gary, i want to i want to ive learned so much reading the book and reading about you and meeting with you. And you have, you know, tons of knowledge, but how did you get from in your at becoming an ethnobotanist botanist and studying native plants and then moving towards a god . What was that trip for you . Well, thats a great question and i think the easiest way to sum it up is that i was very interested in local food when was younger. And as i got o