Bridge on winding road
The Sierra Club is a blend of the recreational folks and public-policy folks. Both currents are pretty strong in there — it’s a source of tension in the organization, but a creative tension. That’s one of their unique strengths: They offer a way for people to enjoy nature, but also make the bridge over to the kinds of public policy required to preserve the opportunity to enjoy nature.”
Marshall Ganz
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~Bill Vaughn
Not too far from where I live, is a nice undeveloped corner at a major intersection. One corner has a Sonic drive-in, another a feed store. One corner is wooded with blackjacks and typical cross-timbers, a cedar tree here and there. The other corner holds some nice large old trees and lots of prairie grass. In the summertime, there’s a fireworks stand there, and the rest of the year, you’ll sometimes see the sheriff’s deputies parked there.
I came by the other day and someone had bulldozed all the big old trees. Sadness crept across my face. I stopped at Sonic and asked about the corner lot.
They bulldozed those wonderful trees…
for a Dollar store.
Sad, isn’t it.
