This excerpt sounds good, but I think it reflects the lack of depth in our comprehension of how we can exist in a sustainable way. Humanity throw’s around the phrase “protect the environment” as if we are similar to healthy but defenseless orphans, widows or historical sites that need to be preserved. Typically, we make long lists of human desires and lump the “environment” into one catch phrase. The landscape isn’t something we sit upon like an alien space ship, but it and we are part of an giant organism called earth. Just as humanity requires hundreds of thousands of bacteria for our bodies to function, we need to feed, heal, and maintain the stength of the entire “environment”, as if it is our own body. We are, after all, simply one part of a giant organism. Or maybe we should conclude that “we have seen the environment and it is us”.
Mark L. Johnson
Ecotone Land Design, Inc.
Kissimmee – St. Cloud