The earth is our god, our
mother, our sustenance, and our salvation.
We are not disconnected entities from the earth and land, the wind and
water, the sun and the sky. We are one
continuum. We were created from the dust
of the earth, we will eventually revert back to this earth. The delicate
balance between the land and our existence has been obscured in the modern
world by technology, overpopulation and urbanization. Despite this de-evolution, our instinctual,
holistic link to the land remains. That
is why it is so important to have public lands where we can rekindle our
natural connection to the earth. These
are places where we can wander in the wilderness and sleep under the stars,
unencumbered by the limitations of civilization and humanity. These lands are
our refuge, places where we can truly be ourselves.
Ancient
cultures, including the Native Americans, believe that we cannot possess the
land; that it is a part of us and we are a part of it. Our public lands are the greatest
manifestation of this ideal, land that we all own, and no one owns. These lands are also a pure expression of
the American ideal; boundless, natural, wild and free. They are to be; treasured not trampled,
conserved not consumed, preserved not possessed.
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