>So it may be, but service to life is service to Life. I've never seen
>happier cherry tomatoes, and they cheered me up a great deal.

i am sure that your work will inspire many!
>
>My friends recommend that we worry about our own back yards first.

it is where we have to start if we don't lose contact with the whole
picture.

 Consider
>the story of the fellow in the south of France who reforested kilometres of
>the countryside on his own, a tree at a time - what a back yard he had.
.
This story is a story writen by Giono ( an inspiring utopist writer," a la
Rousseau") and it is not a true story.
The true story is that the south of France is desertified  by the actions of
humans ( deforestation and tilling) , and the shepherds and  the sheeps
 who inspired the story )are contibuting to finish it.
I am an utopist who refuse to denie the state of the world.
What we didn't learned from the mistakes of the mediterranean civilisations
deforestation and tilling)  ,is allowing us to perpetuate them over and over
with any left over virgin lands ( like here in British Colombia , or the
mountains of Kerala in India ).

The means of altering the land being such now that the process of
desertification  takes few decades instead of centuries.

jean-claude