http://madronoranch.com/?p=312 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-54 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:29:27 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-54 Those empty squares in the Permian Basin used to house drilling rigs or pumping units. Valerie

]]> http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-53 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:19:57 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-53 Heather, rather than worry you've misstated the case, you should celebrate being so far ahead of your time! I appreciate your last essay's look forward to the moment when farmers, ranchers and other "users" of land develop and begin practicing the proper uses of land. I think of Wes Jackson at the Land Institute who has a farm neighboring old wild prairie. He could have plowed it up decades ago but instead looks to the prairie to teach him how to farm.

]]> http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-52 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:04:50 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=312#comment-52 At the risk of offending the entire Internet, or at least my household, I am seriously considering not showering today because I have instead bathed myself in your prose. Your low-suds syntax is bracingly fresh. Bravo!

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