On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jeff Owens wrote:
>
> Nature is being left out in the country where man has more or
> less decided that she belongs. The mountains and seashore
> are becoming no longer the habitat of man but simply places
> for him to visit on weekends and holidays. Man thinks that
> he is too busy to be discommoded by nature. He has things to
> do in a hurry and cannot submit to anything capricious,
> natural or otherwise. It is wholly possible that within not
> too many decades man will venture from his contrived abodes
> into the vast stretches of nature, point through the clear
> plastic shell of his conveyance, and say to his children,
> 'This may be hard to believe, but your ancestors used to live
> out there!'"
Ever read "Brave New World".
sph
Sandra P. Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.flora.org/sandra/
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due,
not a garden swollen to a realm;
his own hands to use,
not the hands of others to command. --Sam Gamgee
