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What the World Needs Now Twelve Honest Answers
The qualities we look for in each other, if adopted by governments and corporations, could prove to be revolutionary in their effect. But if there were a single impulse that might really make a difference in the world, what would it be?

Honor
by Amy Godine

Wonder
by Thomas Berry

Simplicity
by Stephanie Mills

Listening
by Paul Hawken

Hardness
by Lauret Savoy

Love
by Charles Bowden

Responsibility
by Linda M. Hasselstrom

Resolution
by Tim Cahill

Subtlety
by Jane Hirschfield

Grace
by Katie Quirk

Militancy
by Steve Chase

A Parable
by Peter Sauer


FEATURES

Swimming the Mojave
by Ellen Meloy
A mere desert can't stop this woman from attempting to live out her childhood dream: studding a road trip with stops at the most lavish, sparkling pools the Southwest could offer.


The New Economy of Nature
by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison
The labor of nature has always been thought of as free. But a new economy that values natural systems is beginning to take shape.


Torch and Flame
Paintings by Irene Valincius


DEPARTMENTS

From the Editors

Contributors

Letters

The Place Where You Live

Poetry
BY PAMELA ALEXANDER

Natural Excursions
Frog Princes
BY CAROLYN JOHNSON

Raritan Letter
Old Growth
BY DAVID EHRENFELD

Poetry
BY JAMES GALVIN

Poetry
BY PETER MAKUCK

Coda
Daniel Boone Wears Red Shorts
BY SUSAN BERLA

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