Altars of unhewn stone -- The information explosion -- Old Salsola -- Biotechnology and supply-side thinking -- Scientific balloons -- Building a sustainable society -- Hell is now technologically feasible -- How to avoid building pyramids -- Pre-Copernican minds of the space age -- Land wisdom vs. lab success -- Meeting the expectations of the land -- Living nets in a new prairie sea -- Oracles, prophets, and modern heroes -- Farm debt -- Falsehoods of farming -- New roots for American agriculture -- A search for the unifying concept for sustainable agriculture -- Conclusion: Toward a common covenant.