There once was a time where mankind cherished the land and valued, even nurtured, its natural existence. This was a time before steel and concrete and before silicon and copper wire. Many people resent that era as being pre-civilized, overrun by savagery and disorganization. Now we are an industrialized people, we tear apart the Earth to make room for our parking lots and condominiums. The incredible irony, however, is that no matter how civilized we are, we still need the Earth in the same way we did thousands of years ago. …
