The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic: the lan… - Stewart L. Udall

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.