writings from west virginia, three

We all want to be teachers.  Humble thyself and be a student.  A fool is one who thinks he has nothing to learn.

Cows have little place in nature.  They are a destructive force.  Their hooves tear and destroy.  But we have brought them here... what now?  If we stop eating them, shall we unleash them on the wild?  We have already shifted the planet with our actions.  Not shifting is no longer a choice.  We can take drastic, unnatural action to try to shift it back, or we can let nature balance itself over thousands of years.  But the shift has already happened.

It's easy, in the city, to say we are destroying the earth.  Here, I see an earth confident that though it may change, it will survive.