| Show ii I ATTENTION ACTIVISTS I r HE Wilderness So Society ety a aso THE so society ety in search of a better better better bet bet- ter and more beautiful tomorrow brings to Salt Lake a avery avery avery very enlightening and eye opening show all about the wilderness you your neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor and your ability to help preserve the most important thing in life the ability to live We are only now one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred and twenty-seven twenty years later beginning to fully understand Thoreau's prophetic words In wilderness wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness is the preservation of the world said George T. T Frampton Jr president of the Natural Wilderness Society The society is based in Washington DC D.C. and is a profit non-profit conservation or or- It is unique among mong conservation gr groups ups i f f i a it is the only one that devotes itself exclusively to all public land issues and to the preservation preservation preservation of wilderness Author and naturalist Williams Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams tells us There are some issues that demand our Wilderness is one of them Where sage grows coyote plays life tag with a rab rab- rab- rab bit And we can still find the worn well-worn trails of our ancestors ancestors ancestors ances ances- tors as the wooden wheels of their handcarts traversed the American West This is our natural and cultural heritage Wilderness America explores the value of wilderness asking each of us to contemplate our own relationship to the world our own sense of place and what it means to live well These ideas deserve our I r In conjunction with the national exhibit images of Utah's wilderness by acclaimed acclaimed acclaimed ac ac- ac- ac claimed photographers are on display A series series' of special al aleven even events ts can be seen through the month of October to coincide with the exhibit including including including in in- a reading by author Terry Tempest Williams from her latest book Refuge on Oct 14 at Kingsbury Hall Located on the Presidents President's Circle 1350 E. E S. S the museum is open Monday through Saturday from a.m. pm p.m. and Sundays and holidays from 1200 p.m. pm p.m. Admission is 2 for adults and 1 for children under 14 Utah's wild lands whether de facto proposed o or artificially designated are are among the worlds world's greatest treasures Like islands surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- sur- sur rounded by the the works of of man they provide both a alink alink alink link with our past as a species es and as and hope for forthe forthe forthe the future The beauty and diversity of life at its greatest intensity is here both beautiful beautiful beautiful ful and horrible arid and lush serene and tempes tempes- These areas if they are simply left alone will touch the lives of millions in the years to come If as Wallace says Something will have gone out of us as people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed then the opposite could also be true Cherishing and protecting our remaining wild lands can enrich and ennoble ennoble ennoble en en- noble us in countless ways |
