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Show SHARE THE LAND "To live healthily on the land we must also live with it. We must be part not only of the human community but of the whole community. We must acknowledge some sort of oneness, not only with our neighbors, our countrymen, and our civilization, civili-zation, but also some respect for the natural na-tural as well as the man-made community. commun-ity. It is not a sentimental but a grimly grim-ly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long. -Joseph Wood Krutch "The land itself" poses a more difficult dif-ficult problem (than energy, water, and , transportation). Thomas Jefferson wrestled with that issue throughout his life. His basic idea was to allow any given generation genera-tion to use the land as its members preferred, pre-ferred, so long as they did not ruin it for later generations, as long as they did not deny later generations the right to use it differently within the same rules of the game." --Sunday Oregonian ISNT IT? Isn't it odd how each family on Main Street wonder how its neighbors can consistently con-sistently live beyond their means? Christian Sci. Monitor |