aCKNOWLEDGMENTS
Naturally, for a book like this there would be a lifetime of people to thank, so I hope I will be forgiven if I only include here a highly abbreviated version of the entire list.
Several long-time Associates of the institute reviewed the manuscript and made numerous helpful suggestions: Bruce Johnson, Laurie Farber, David Siegenthaler, Ginger Wallis, Eddie Soloway, and Donn Edwards.
Dave Wampler coordinated the final production details, Tim Bird typed in all the corrections and changes on the word processor, Benjamin Bragonier served as our overall art director, and Jan Muir added the wonderful drawings.
Although I had been working on ideas for the book when time permitted, for several years, Jim Wells, Kirk Hoessle, Eddie Soloway, and Dave Wampler joined me for an important planning session in 1984 and fortunately, Jim came back at the end to help out with the book's final layout and design.
Pat Walkup, Harry Hoogesteger, Bill McKinney, John Clarke, Bruce Elkin, and Helene Phelps, although no longer directly involved as part of the institute's staff, contributed to the development of the ideas in numerous ways even when they may not have realized they were doing so.
Of course, my graduate students at George Williams College and Aurora University have given me the chance to refine my points year after year, and their questions and observations are reflected in much of our work.
Finally, I would like to thank Martha and Bill. Although they are fictitious characters that I refer to in my workshops (or in our journal, "Talking Leaves"), their comments are based on actual conversations and correspondence over the years. Even though I have been somewhat less than charitable at times in my retorts to their queries, they have prodded all of us into thinking about things that needed further examination and clarification and that is always of value. So to all the Marthas and Bills out there, thanks for keeping us on our toes even when I didn't relish the opportunity or respond as kindly as I should have.
cREDITS
We gratefully acknowledge the following authors and publishers for permission to use their writings:
Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered by Bill Devall and George Sessions (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1987)
Kelley, The Home Planet, © 1988 by Kevin W. Kelley. Reprinted with permission of Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts.
Out Of This World, by Michael Page and Robert Ingpen, Lansdowne Press, New South Wales, Australia. © copyright text Michael Page 1986. Reprinted with permission from the author.
Note: Omissions brought to our attention will be credited in subsequent printings.
