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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil (Paperback)
This book is amazing, inspiring, wonderful. I was so uninterested in the topic of soil before I took a required class in which this book was mentioned. The author, Hillel, discusses the earth from many different points of view, mythological, anthropological, philosophical, ecological, and, of course, scientific. He tells us why the fertile crescent is no longer fertile and about similar destruction we're wreaking on our own bread basket lands right now... Surprisingly, this is an easy book to read. I read many parts of it outloud to friends. Now when I walk I am aware of the life teeming under each step I take...
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Out of the Earth,
By Byron E. Butchart (Charlottesville, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil (Paperback)
This is a very well written study of the intersection of soil and civilization: Mankind's effect on the life-supporting soil around them, and the usually terminal effect of the degraded soil upon mankind. Hillel has a wonderful voice and solid credentials. As Santana said, remember your history or pay the price.
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Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil by Daniel Hillel (Paperback - September 30, 1992)
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