December 18, 2009

"There must be limits, somewhere,
to the human footprint on this earth.
When the whole of the world
is reduced to nothing but human product,
we will have lost the map
that can show us how we got here,
and can offer our spirits
an answer when we ask why.
Surely we are capable of declaring sacred
some quarters that we dare not enter or possess."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Small Wonder, 2002)