Here's another forwarded glith. Sorry about this, folks. Stefanie
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Whether we eat veggies or cowsies, we all kill to live. We take wood to
build. I think the "wrongness" we sense does not lie in the taking, but
in the extent and way we use resources on our beautiful planet. When we
take with gratitude, with consideration of the long term cost to
other life forms and to the future of all life, we have a mechanism for
limiting ourselves. I think if we recognized our connection to this
nature (Mother Earth, for me also) that provides for us, we would use
less. I also am pained to see the waste and destruction in
our present land use practices.
Barbara Bliss
On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, gretchen hughes wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Faith Freewoman wrote:
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> > How many of you can drive by a clearcut area and NOT feel the pain?
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> > Faith
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> It's so reassuring to know that there is someone else out there.
> The hills around where I lived have changed so much in just the last
> four years that I am often completely overwhelmed by the giant scars on the
> hillsides as I look at them. I often get this sick, twisting, wrenching
> feeling in my stomach and just feel all the strength drained from me when
> I see them. I've found myself verbally apologizing to the forest and
> then wondering if I've completely lost it and am getting a
> little carried away. And yet, try as I might to be rational about it, I
> can't sometimes. It just hurts too much.
> Thank you Faith for letting me know I am not alone in my
> response. Some might think it madness on my part, but I think the
> real madness is among those who don't realize what they are doing when
> they abuse the land like that.
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> ~Gretchen /\
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