I asked the people I photographed what authors and texts they would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the communities and activities pictured in A Natural Order. The following is a compilation of their answers. Primitive and Homesteading Skills Wendell Berry, Robin Blankenship, Gregory J. Davenport, Thomas J. Elpel, Peter Goodchild, Richard [...]
Definition of Natural Order: the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws. Frank (Florida): The natural order of things is when a species gets dominant in its niche it overruns it completely to the point where it eats all of its food and then it crashes and [...]
Aperture Magazine Issue 200, Fall 2010 http://www.aperture.org/aperture-200.html#four The passages that follow were printed in the fall 2010 edition of Aperture magazine, excerpted from interviews conducted from 2006 to 2009. Kaleb (North Carolina): The more I thought about what was wrong with the structure of our society, the more I felt like our biggest problems came [...]