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

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.

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