Lessons From Animals and Land

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

NOTES FROM ACADEME: THE SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSITY

Seven a.m. and fog stills the valley enfolding Warren Wilson College. Cattle stand like statues in the damp gray mist, a pasture vanishing beyond them, and trees beside the river are vague silhouettes that the wiper blades can neither resolve nor remove. The only spot of color is a giant pumpkin growing outside Warren Wilson's farm office, where the door is open and John Pilson, the farm manager, is listing chores on a whiteboard, the