Freya Mathews is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the editor of Ecology and Democracy and the author of The Ecological Self.

• Acknowledgments Part 1: Culture: The Love of Ground 1. The Last Crane: Modernity and the End of Grace2. Letting the World Grow Old3. Becoming Native Part 2: Ground Studies 4. Julia's Farm: Fertility5. Hamilton Downs: Philosophy in the Field...of Being6. The White Heron: Grace and the Native Self Part 3: Views from the Ground 7. The Merri Creek: To the Source of the Given8. Barrmunga: Return to the Doorstep of Night Afterword: CERES: Singing the Ground Notes Index

Freya Mathews is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the editor of Ecology and Democracy and the author of The Ecological Self.

• Acknowledgments Part 1: Culture: The Love of Ground 1. The Last Crane: Modernity and the End of Grace2. Letting the World Grow Old3. Becoming Native Part 2: Ground Studies 4. Julia's Farm: Fertility5. Hamilton Downs: Philosophy in the Field...of Being6. The White Heron: Grace and the Native Self Part 3: Views from the Ground 7. The Merri Creek: To the Source of the Given8. Barrmunga: Return to the Doorstep of Night Afterword: CERES: Singing the Ground Notes Index

Freya Mathews is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the editor of Ecology and Democracy and the author of The Ecological Self.

• Acknowledgments Part 1: Culture: The Love of Ground 1. The Last Crane: Modernity and the End of Grace2. Letting the World Grow Old3. Becoming Native Part 2: Ground Studies 4. Julia's Farm: Fertility5. Hamilton Downs: Philosophy in the Field...of Being6. The White Heron: Grace and the Native Self Part 3: Views from the Ground 7. The Merri Creek: To the Source of the Given8. Barrmunga: Return to the Doorstep of Night Afterword: CERES: Singing the Ground Notes Index