When you look across
this vast landscape
now, it’s hard to believe
that it could possibly
be damaged or lost
due to acts of man.
But each threat alone
is capable of eroding
a piece of the canyon’s majesty,
and together these threats will strip
the landscape of its ability
to do the thing that makes it unique:
to instill humility
by demonstrating that human beings
are tiny in relation to the forces
that have shaped this planet,
and that we are not the center of the world.
-- Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Trust program director
(arranged quote, from recent article on development in Grand Canyon)
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