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Video lengths in minutes are approximate.

1. Introduction [2 minutes]
2. Family and Academic Life [8 minutes]
3. Founding of the Land Institute [8 minutes]
4. Man and the Environment [3 minutes]
5. Education at the Land Institute [4 minutes]
6. New Roots for Agriculture [6 minutes]
7. Prairie as Analogy [5 minutes]
8. Wendell Berry Friendship [4 minutes]
9. The State of Agriculture in 1990 [5 minutes]
10. Twenty Years [2 minutes]
11. Small-scale and the Future [9 minutes]
12. The Age of Discovery [8 minutes]

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1. What is an optimum learning environment?
2. What would nature require of us? (the four basic principals guiding the Land Institute)
3. How did the focus on prairies in your work come to you?
4. How did you meet your close friend Wendell Berry?
5. Why did you write Meeting the Expectations of the Land?
6. What does a people that are looking for solutions do?
7. What are your thoughts on wilderness and wild animals?
8. What are your hopes for 2090?