To us, the trees represent the three versions of reality which we must come to know. One way to decipher the future is to take careful note of the past. Indeed, to really know ourselves as human beings and to understand Nebraska's sense of place, we must take a steely-eyed look in the mirror at who we are as a people. What we have found in our exploration of Nebraska's sense of place is that it is wrought with contradictions. A major contradiction is the divide between city and rural life in Nebraska.
Many family farmers are rich with a lot of things, but they are cash poor.
In short, Nebraska farmers are essential to the health of the country and the world because they make food . However, oddly, our farmers are not recompensed for their troubles. We examine this anomaly. Then, all at once, it worked itself. It woke up, it stretched itself, And it was so big, so rich, that suddenly we found we were rich, just from sitting still.