Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his new found power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:04:00 +0000
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