Sustainable agriculture is a paradigm that seeks to work in harmony with nature and with people, and thus, represents a fundamental departure from past attempts to conquer nature. Concern for sustainability presumes some higher order of nature, including human nature, to which people must conform. Spirituality may be defined as a felt need to live in harmony with some higher order of things. Thus, sustainability is fundamentally spiritual in nature, in that it seeks harmony with nature instead of conquest. The New American Agricultural Revolution Sustainable agriculture has been defined as a quiet revolution - but the time for quietness has passed.
Industrialization is neither inevitable nor is it progress.
The time for quietness has passed. Thomas Paine, the revolutionary writer, used three basic strategies in developing the pamphlets that inevitably rekindled revolutionary spirits. He gave no quarter to the enemy, the British monarchy. But, he invariably went beyond criticism to paint a positive vision of the future of America - of the freedom and democracy to come. Finally, Paine never showed any doubt that the colonies would eventually win their freedom - there was simply no way the British could hold them in captivity if all demanded to be free.