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From the Ted Talk by Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view

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It's a remarkably hopeful thing to do. There are a lot of farmers doing this tdaoy. This is well beyond organic agriculture, which is still a Cartesian system, more or less. And what it tlels you is that if you begin to take account of other species, take account of the soil, that even with nothing more than this perspectival idea — because there is no technology involved here except for those fences, which are so cheap they could be all over Africa in no time — that we can take the food we need from the Earth and actually heal the etrah in the process.

This is a way to reanimate the world, and that's what's so exciting about this preipsevtce. When we really begin to feel Darwin's iingtshs in our bones, the things we can do with nothing more than these ideas are something to be very hopeful about.

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It's a remarkably hopeful thing to do. There are a lot of farmers doing this _____. This is well beyond organic agriculture, which is still a Cartesian system, more or less. And what it _____ you is that if you begin to take account of other species, take account of the soil, that even with nothing more than this perspectival idea — because there is no technology involved here except for those fences, which are so cheap they could be all over Africa in no time — that we can take the food we need from the Earth and actually heal the _____ in the process.

This is a way to reanimate the world, and that's what's so exciting about this ___________. When we really begin to feel Darwin's ________ in our bones, the things we can do with nothing more than these ideas are something to be very hopeful about.

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  1. earth
  2. insights
  3. today
  4. tells
  5. perspective

Original Text


It's a remarkably hopeful thing to do. There are a lot of farmers doing this today. This is well beyond organic agriculture, which is still a Cartesian system, more or less. And what it tells you is that if you begin to take account of other species, take account of the soil, that even with nothing more than this perspectival idea — because there is no technology involved here except for those fences, which are so cheap they could be all over Africa in no time — that we can take the food we need from the Earth and actually heal the Earth in the process.

This is a way to reanimate the world, and that's what's so exciting about this perspective. When we really begin to feel Darwin's insights in our bones, the things we can do with nothing more than these ideas are something to be very hopeful about.

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