“It’s not that we need degrees in biology. Scientists, oddly enough, often don’t grasp the natural world well, either. Too compartmentalized.”

And I relate this to the demise of modernism:

“The world outside is messy, confusing and contradictory. Creating a sustainable agriculture (one that you can invest in each year and see an increasing or continuing return) is actually quite difficult.”

A lot of us have stopped visiting the proctologist, oncologist, GI surgeon, podiatrist, psychiatrist, and plumber for our very special needs, and started reading holistic books instead, which treat the human system as a whole.

The world is messy and that’s OK. We don’t have to idealize and fix it.
The world is contradictory and that’s OK, we don’t have to reconcile it.

By the way, I spent my youth on bluegrass farms, and each fall we would burn the chaff to restore the nutrients to the soil. Fun times.