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This is one of those ideas that seems so reasonable to someone in NYC, and makes people in Colorado go all twitchy and question 'comfortably.' As a designer, I like the presentation but the idea catches in my throat. Though a nation of unpopulated green is a great thought, there is a power in seeing the mountains from my window. There is a connection to the world as I watch the coyotes play behind my house that I didn't get living in central London. There is beauty in acres of farmland, held by families with histories and heartaches. Giving people a little piece of wilderness inspires them to reach out and care for the big pieces they can't see as well.
Barbara Kingsolver, in High Tide in Tuscon, wrote:
Who will love the imperfect lands, the fragments of backyard desert paradise, the creek that runs between farms? In our passion to protect the last remnants of virgin wilderness, shall we surrender everything else in exchange?
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