It was all secondary and tertiary growth at Moraine View, a chaos of saplings crowding each other between older trees thirty or forty feet tall. But it was life as God designed it to be: green things working out their own destiny as they interacted, and providing habitat for animals, rather than merely green things genetically engineered to be nothing but fast raw material for sacks and silos of corn. … Every natural field and wood is a rich ongoing conversation between God’s creatures. Cornfields are not.