About the Author

Richard Quinney is the author of several books that combine photography with autobiographical writing, most recently Where Yet the Sweet Birds Sing, Of Time and Place, Tales from the Middle Border, and Things Once Seen. After earning his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, he taught in several universities on the East Coast and in the Midwest. Recently he founded the independent press Borderland Books in Madison. The family farm he writes about is a dairy farm of four generations in Walworth County in southern Wisconsin. It is being preserved and managed according to the practices of sustainable agriculture and is the site of several research and demonstration projects.

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Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson