Why would anyone write about something as common and as unwelcome as dirt? It’s for good reason that we sweep our floors, wipe our shoes, and wash our soiled clothes.

There are, however, other ways of looking at the stuff of which the Bible says God made Adam.

In the following pages, RBC writer and naturalist Dean Ohlman does what he so skillfully did in earlier booklets about the wonder of trees and of water. Dean compels us to dig a little deeper into the nature and significance of the good earth that was valued far more by his grandfather’s generation than by most of us today.

Martin R. De Haan II