In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

It gave a sense of the possibilities of an alternative culture. And it wasn't just poetry that moved people. It was the sense of a community, of people with a vision.

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture