After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.