CONTENTS

Foreword ix

Introduction: From the Ground Up 1

PA RT I

Into the Anthropocene

1 A Gondwanan Ark 11
2 Emergence of the Mechanical Mind 30

PART I I

Regenerating the Five Landscape Functions

3 An Indivisible, Dynamic Whole 47

Regenerating the Solar-Energy Function

4 An Upside-Down World 58
5 Out of Africa 72
6 Make Mistakes but Don’t Do Nothing 89

Regenerating the Water Cycle

7 Water, Water Everywhere 104
8 Call of the Reed Warbler 122

Regenerating the Soil-Mineral Cycle

9 From Stardust to Stardust 145
10 Farming without Farming 166
11 Dancing under the Moon 194
Regenerating Dynamic Ecosystems
12 Keep a Green Bough in Your Heart 212
13 Blessed Are the Meek 230
14 Listen to the Land 251

Regenerating the Landscape:

Role of the Human–Social
15 A Mysterious Dialogue 275
16 Design with Nature 294
17 Agri-Culture: Source of a Healthy
Culture, Society and Mother Earth 313

PART I I I

Transforming Ourselves – Transforming Earth

18 The Big Picture:
Co-Creating with Landscapes 333
19 Transforming Ourselves 356
20 Healing Earth 382
21 Healing Ourselves 398
22 Towards an Emergent Future 430

Acknowledgements 447
Bibliography 452
Notes 477
Index 495