‘It is good to have Nature working for you,’ said Henry Besuden, the dean of American Southdown breeders. ‘She works for a minimum wage.’ That is true. She works at times for almost nothing, requiring only that we respect her work and give her a chance, as when she maintains – indeed, improves – the fertility and productivity of a pasture by the natural succession of clover and grass or when she improves a clay soil for us by means of the roots of a grass sod. She works for us by preserving health or wholeness, which for all our ingenuity we cannot make. If we fail to respect her health, she
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