Description: His vivid and personal essays, rooted in everyday experiences, offer a distinctive perspective on questions of urgent contemporary importance.
Brief description: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Ames, Iowa, and president of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture at Pocantico Hills, New York, has published articles in many books including Farm Aid: A Song For America and Sustainable Agroecosystem Management. He lives in Ames, Iowa.
Review Quotes:
Frog Pond Philosophy combines the rigors of hard-core philosophy with the reflections of an avid outdoorsman and naturalist. Donnelley states boldly the need for healing the divide between humans and nature, and he gently nudges readers out of their conceptual categories and comfort zones.
--Bill Vitek, coeditor of The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge