{"id":65,"date":"2011-09-16T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavesrollinmythoughts.com\/\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-10-23T01:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:59:50","slug":"a-thought-about-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavesrollinmythoughts.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"A thought about the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Wallace Stegner,&nbsp;<em>Wilderness Essay&nbsp;<\/em>[1962]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A thought about the environment &#8212; 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