Epigraph:
We shared their delight.
Their festival mood became our mood;
we all revelled in a common abundance
& in each others wellbeing. -Aldo Leopold
If not we ourselves, the day will come
when our children will undo what we have foolishly done. - Edward St John
This vanishing world is beautiful beyond our dreams
It contains in itself rewards and gratification
never found in the artificial landscape
or man-made objects so often regarded
as exciting evidence of a new world in the making - Olegas Truchanas