The URL for a very thoughtful essay by Seth Zuckerman, circuit rider for Ecotrust, on the role humans play in "wilderness:" http://www.tidepool.org/dispatches/wildland.cfm An excerpt, detailing where he goes with the essay: [begin] The central issue I want to address is the nature of the wild and people's relation to it. We each have a choice: we can believe that humans are somehow separate from the rest of the animal kingdom and the ecosystem, in which case we essentially take the same side as the folks who design and operate the industrial mess that we're in. They set people apart from nature, too. That's their first step in seeing human beings as superior to other beings. Or we can believe that humans are animals, and we somehow belong in the wild alongside the Pacific giant salamander and the red tree vole. Let me say where I stand on this, and where I suspect a lot of people would stand as well: People are animals, and we're an integral part of nature. [end excerpt] -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 22:00:22 PST
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