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Show Now I’m deathing my mother. Each of our life cycles is just not that big a deal in light of the on-going processes of universal life we each are born, live, and die, most of us within 100 years. I’m probably your average smart person and what I have learned during my short tenure on the earth is that I know I don’t know enough to say with absolute conviction just how our public lands ought to be managed to insure they will continue to exist in the future. Every bit of me knows that destroying them is not the way. I know . allowing great (or even small) herds of cows and sheep to over graze them is not the answer. Or permitting any ATVs at all. Or open-pit mines. I know it’s not hoards of hikers, or bikers, or Boy Scouts caving in historic sites. I know it’s not dams or roads or air ports. Why aren't w ¢ protecting (the wildlands)? Because we are frightened and greedy and egotisical and believe we are the center of the universe? 702 S. Main St. 259.7722 800.753.8216 Moab’s Canoe Specialists Q: What do you call a riddle I know the contemplation of the public land future is about silence. About space. Light. Immeasurable except by their absence, like solitude, we have ignorantly passed over these essential qualities in our mechanical, legal, and scientific analyses. I know we must protect The Land’s absolute integrity before we permit use. Humans are infinitely resourceful and naiive. I have faith we can find ways to feed, house, warm, and entertain ourselves with the resources we have, without further senseless, reckless misuse of public lands. conceived in a canoe? A: A'canoedrum.' Last night reading another rag of great merit (other than The Zephyr), Mountainfreak, 1 came upon the following, written by Mumia Abu-Jamal. (On death row since 1982, accused of killing a police person, his book, Death Blossoms is published by Plough Publishing, 800728-9731.) ———— We are in need of a religion of Life that sees the world in more than merely utilitarian terms. A religion that reveres all life as valuable in itself; that sees Earth as an extension of self andae wounded, as an injury to self. RENTALS GUIDED TRIPS SALES CANOE SCHOOL Labyrinth & Stillwater Canyons on the Green River Calm & Whitewater “Dailys" on the Colorado River Goosenecks of the San Juan We need a religion that recognizes the interdependence of man and this world; which sees that the atmosphere surrounding our globe is the same are we breathe, and part and parcel of our lungs that Earth’s water is no different from the saliva in our mouths. We need a religion that rediscovers the idealism that existed before institutionalism; that rediscovers the primordial awe felt by ancient man when he first beheld creation spiraling outside ‘Gateway to the Confluence on the Dolores River of his insignificant self. I recommend we each Stay at Home a Day for Wilderness one day this year, a day when we would have gone to hike, bike, ski, climb. Contemplate a place you know of or can imagine. Spend the entire day imaging where you might have been. Look at photos; | - paint your own. For fifteen minutes, feel the air. Imagine sitting; hear the’silence, Think: water. Think: green. Imagine and remember wildness. Imagine no9 wilderness and what we condemn to the future. Find your humility, acknowledge your conceit. stay together learn the flowers go light. --Gary Snyder Mm O Cc I e Nn et Moab's NEW Internet Provider "State of the Art" satelite technology Fast, Consistent & Reliable Service Enjoy the web the way it was meant to be. Former Escalante resident and long-time environmentalist Susan Hiner works for Forest Guardians in Santa Fe. 259.3141 or 888.373.4545 www.moci.net TOMTETL L et ier y FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY 61 N. Main St. Moab, UT 84532 (435) 259-9808 (888) 479-9808 E-MAIL: tillohot@lasal.net INTERNET: www.tomiill.com ANOTHER ‘FRIEND OF T HE ZEPHYR’ CHANce NE ERE = e for details AFTER READING THAT ANONYMOUS ‘FRIENDS OF THE ZEPHYR’ LETTER, | WAS SO MOVED & | INSPIRED, | DECIDED TO TAKE OUT A LARGER AD! & St SATE ute noc: nove omni oo 8Seen pute! (40odS eo f} = tg|} yell am (ae : |