Zion Mojave Wilderness
When there no longer remains clean air to breathe, fresh water to drink, and healthy food to eat... nothing else matters.
I, a typical Illinoisan, have long yearned to visit Utah's wild spaces and like 300 million other Americans have not once dreamed of traveling to shop in a "new" Utah mall, counting Utah's traffic lights and high-line power towers, or standing gape-jawed before some "new" manmade structure that obscures Utah's awe-inspiring natural skyline. "New" is a fleeting adjective. "Old," as in "as old as dirt" is a timeless treasure.
Profiteering is, without exception, fleeting. The soul of earth is eternal.
Restraint is a virtue. What profit it Utah residents to reward, largely absentee, corporate profiteers while simultaneously sacrificing their state's own soul; it's wild and natural land?
*Slower internet connections may take a few moments to load but the animated slide-show is well worth the wait.Please visit * Zion Mojave Wilderness to see the beauty and majesty at stake and to discover what action you can take to help preserve this wonderful piece of planet earth.
Urban sprawl, jobs, traffic, noise, neon lights, their accompanying forms of pollution and bottom-line corporate profits cannot truly sustain life. These only mask and often deface the true and natural sources of life. Wilderness gave rise to high-quality human life in Utah. Lack of true wilderness will be Utah's demise.
A typical human trait is to fail to appreciate one's own backyard treasures. Utah's politicians and Utah's citizens have a choice to make: preserve Utah's life sustaining essence or sell it to the highest bidder - Utah resident or not. Absentee ownership is fertile ground for resource exploitation. When the resources disappear... their extractors and beneficiaries move on... leaving Utah's residents spoiled and exhausted land and the morale depressing burden of funding and doing the work involved in cleaning up the mess left behind. This nature destroying cycle happens over and over again... please do your homework. Visit thousands of exploited and deserted mining, manufacturing, and oil towns across America. Visit thousands of land parcels utterly decimated (in one year) by mechanized forms of so-called "outdoor recreation."
A typical human trait is to fail to appreciate one's own backyard treasures. Utah's politicians and Utah's citizens have a choice to make: preserve Utah's life sustaining essence or sell it to the highest bidder - Utah resident or not. Absentee ownership is fertile ground for resource exploitation. When the resources disappear... their extractors and beneficiaries move on... leaving Utah's residents spoiled and exhausted land and the morale depressing burden of funding and doing the work involved in cleaning up the mess left behind. This nature destroying cycle happens over and over again... please do your homework. Visit thousands of exploited and deserted mining, manufacturing, and oil towns across America. Visit thousands of land parcels utterly decimated (in one year) by mechanized forms of so-called "outdoor recreation."
I, a typical Illinoisan, have long yearned to visit Utah's wild spaces and like 300 million other Americans have not once dreamed of traveling to shop in a "new" Utah mall, counting Utah's traffic lights and high-line power towers, or standing gape-jawed before some "new" manmade structure that obscures Utah's awe-inspiring natural skyline. "New" is a fleeting adjective. "Old," as in "as old as dirt" is a timeless treasure.
Profiteering is, without exception, fleeting. The soul of earth is eternal.
Restraint is a virtue. What profit it Utah residents to reward, largely absentee, corporate profiteers while simultaneously sacrificing their state's own soul; it's wild and natural land?
posted by Duane Short | 10/17/2006 09:11:00 AM
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