Pepper quickly learns how to be a strong cow horse just like her mother, Patsy. She meets animals in the pastures and learns about cows, rivers, and her Owner. The Owner quickly finds a buyer for Pepper. Pepper goes through the sadness being separated from her mother for the first time. Pepper begins to see that her Master is more than an Owner, he is becoming her Dear Friend. Her Dear Friend teaches her so much and takes her for long rides. Things change when her Dear Friend's wife's medical condition worsens. In a cruel twist of fate; Pepper's Dear Friend must sell his home, his assets, and...

'Aborigines did not cause the extinction of the megafauna . . . and it is unlikely that they have caused the extinction of any element of the fauna and flora.''If you want to practise control burning in order to protect houses or farms, then do it in the same way as you would use a bulldozer to clear a firebreak, but don't pretend that you are doing anything but damage to the environment.''If you commercialise an environmental resource you do so to make money. Don't pretend that it also benefits the environment.'Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent, The Pure State of Nature...