If not me, who?
If not now, when?
Dr. Karkeys
When the sky goes deeply blue,
just before the stars fill up the
near black above, the only sound that
lingers is a steel guitar whispering
from a car radio In the places where
the land and the waters and the skies
hold off the crowds, the shifting,
bending chords pay homage to the
hills, and the melody reaches w ith the
mountains toward the moon In the
hands of a master, the steel plays
notes that carry until the winds die,
just before daw-n, the sound of things
that have the illusion of lasting
Because it is tied so closely to our
Western myth, and because we
desperately need our myths so that
we can dream in the face of adversity.
Country ' music is often reverent, and
inspires a deep affection
The fam ily farmer cared for the
land, he understood that the soil was
living earth, that his life would pass,
and his children s and. still, the land
would live This sense of stewardship
was inspired not by government or
churches, but by the land itself
It
was felt by those who preceeded the
farmers
Now.
however.
when
profit,
rather than sustainability, has guided
Americas agricultural industry for
so long, we are seeing the eitrem e
costs of single cropping in highly
modified soils, of dependence on
irrigation, of streams killed because
the cost of maintaining buffer zones of
vegetation is not built into the cost of
food production
As w ith m aiim um
yield forestry, greed yields a short
term profit that arranges the cost of
damages be paid much later, and
often by the victims
Waste, like
ostentation, is excessive
When it
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Pitchers are loosening up,
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money, the Cubs did some
traditional trading, and soon,
throughout the land, we w ill
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endangers the lives that follow it is
criminal
It is absurd that the very
businesses which are knowni as
exploiters have sought the hearts of
independent westerners in their Wise
Use coalition These are the economic
giants who. when the price
their
greed has come due. simply turn us
against each other and vanish behind
a cloud of disclaimed responsibility
The people who know the land
understand that it must be healthy so
that it can help us provide wisely We
have been insulted and deceived and
polarized by the profit seekers fix’ too
long We are not environmentalist vs
logger,
angler
vs
rancher,
or
archeologist vs miner The struggle is
between those who care for the earth
and those who care about money
As people perceive the difference
between self serving pronouncements
and the complexities of preserving our
resources, they can make their voices
heard in support of intelligent policies
in the Department of the Interior and
the Bureau of Land Management Let
it be known that there is no room in
our councils for those who see only
board feet in a redwood that has lived
for 30 of our generations, or those
who would rip out a Joshua tree that
has outlived the Romans and leave
behind only a pile of radioactive
tailings
It is possible that we are
crushing the miraculous unfolding of
life on this planet when we are only
beginning to understand it
It is also
in our power to slop
Continue to contaminate your
own bed. and you w ill one night
suffocate in your own waste
Chief Seattle
The"PEACE SIGN"
Back by popular demand or The
footprint of the American Chicken 7 What
does this fam iliar symbol mean, and why
do we love, hate and ignore it?
The oldest explanation of us origins we
have heard of was that some English
women who were protesting the Atomic
Bomb in the fifties w'ere told that
semaphore for N & D (standing for Nuclear
Disarmamentl would look like what we
call the Peace Sign They adopted it and it
spread to the counter culture in America
and was worn as a protest during the
VietNam War
What is this symbol doing on the front
page of the Edge? Well, as some of you
know the Edge got its start in Portland
during the recent Gulf War ( Operation
Desert Storm not the current edition)
when Uncle Mike. Wickland Dr Karkeys
and your Beloved Editor put out a Peace
Paper in protest
Now. we are again engaged in war in
various places around the planet, and again
we feel the need to eipress our opposition
to violence as a solution to economic and
social disputes If Ghandi and Dr King
have taught us anything it is that we need
not kill people to bring about change We
can and must resolve our disputes without
the massive distruction we have used in
the past We can no longer afford the
luxury of war We can no longer pretend
th e re is no o th e r w a y 1 W e m u s t m a k e and
keep the peace on this planet if we are to
survive We must make peace as
individuals, slates, nations and
corporations If there is to be peace it
must begin with me. and w ith you and the
efforts must never end Just a rem inder
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