“If we want to save places, people, or plants, we have to remember their stories. In their stories are the details of their natural and social history and, most importantly, the meaning they have for our lives...The reason traditional cultures are so important to the world right now is that they still know how to remember their stories. ”

Severing and Remembering, Chapter Ten
Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and The Future of Seeds

Uncertain Peril is a powerful reminder that what’s at stake right now is nothing less than the nature of the future.

“Without being alarmist, Cummings has written a most alarming book, one that demands our attention.”
—Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma

“This is a magnificent work. Claire Cummings now takes her place with Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva and other great philosophers and
critics…”

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