This is what I saw. I saw hills and valleys.

Briar Patch ?

And when they reached Central Asia, they reached what was effectively a steppe super highway, a grassland super highway.

We're going to the Briar Patch.

Nothing but grass was to be seen in the prairie.

I started pasting them.

Laura Ingalls grew up on the prairie.

And we might think of these as abandoned.

It's created from the bottom up.

I was with you in the meadow.

Trees do not grow on prairies.

I was born on the Steppe...

So I could tell the little girl in the meadow.

Cattle were grazing in the field.

She and Pyotr Ilyich are standing behind the high grass at Zharov.

It's like, when you put your head to the grass.

You guessed right. I saw the steppe in my dream.

Better to see predators in tall grass, my dear.

lovers of Nature there.

New predators, hyenas, getting faster and faster still. Grasslands created opportunities.

But then, the people from IRDNC proposed to Joshua

And I say back into the job market, because this is not new.

We headed south, with dust flying away, The weeds smoked up, and at his own leisure, His feeler on the horseshoe, the grasshopper forecast...

I call it the Briar Patch.

Radical collaboration. Social entrepreneurship.

Lehman Brothers goes down, the whole lot collapses.

Kind of.

The fire on the cattle range... the potatoes in the ashes... the boathouse floating in the lake.

Our farming has done the opposite.

Wild animals roamed across the plains.

What do you call a man who takes care of sheep in the field?

And the aurochs was like the bison.

like Agent Orange over many areas to defoliate land, trees, grasslands, and other areas.

And then he stopped. Walking in front of him was her.

Every species does it.

We can see wild animals lying in the grass.

ahead of me stretch a thousand miles of empty mesa mountains, prairies, desert.

Now, if it does not decay biologically, it shifts to oxidation, which is a very slow process, and this smothers and kills grasses,

She watched the grass turn green.

Since, um, you appeared in the meadow behind my parents' house... where I used to play.

In addition to being an ordinary Namibian and in addition to being a Himba

You came to that meadow... and you forced yourself into the heart and the mind of a little girl.

Now, all of that grass you see aboveground has to decay biologically before the next growing season, and if it doesn't, the grassland and the soil begin to die.

It transpired that fire was caused by a careless smoker.

And you need the local people for that because these grasslands, once they start burning ...