This is not a book to be hastily read and dropped; it is rather a book to live with, to absorb slowly, and to return to, as one's own experience and knowledge increases. Though it is a call to action, it is not for those who believe in "crash programs" or instant solutions: rather, it lays a fresh course of stones on a ground plan already in being" Here are the foundations for a that will replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized, explosion-threatned world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes.