Icicle Valley Protection Alliance

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Is civilization progress? the challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life -- the life of plants and animals as well as that of men.

-- Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.

The wild places are where we began.
When they end, so do we.

-- David Brower

We abuse land because we regard it
as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love and respect.

-- Aldo Leopold

No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the world, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

-- Edward Abbey

Right is right,
even if everyone is against it.
And wrong is wrong,
even if everyone is for it.

-- Thomas Paine

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

It seems to me I’d like to go
Where bells don’t ring, nor whistles blow,
Nor clocks don’t strike, nor gongs sound,
And I’d have stillness all around.

Not real stillness, but just the trees,
Low whispering, or the hum of bees,
Or brooks faint babbling over stones,
In strangely, softly tangled tones.

Or maybe a cricket or katydid,
Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid,
Or just some such sweet sound as these,
To fill a tired heart with ease.

If ‘tweren’t for sight and sound and smell,
I’d like the city pretty well,
But when it comes to getting rest,
I like the country lots the best.

Sometimes it seems to me I must
Just quit the city’s din and dust,
And get out where the sky is blue,
And say, now, how does it seem to you?

--NIXON WATERMAN

from our Letters to the Editor section:

I would like to suggest that the pro-NUSEL project folks visit the Icicle Canyon and walk the gorge trail, hike into the high lakes, watch the rock climbers, cyclists and witness the numerous campgrounds full of families enjoying nature. View the creek in the spring as it roars and tumbles down the canyon and in the fall as yellow leaves fall in the creek as it trickles through the rocks. See what makes this area unique and why it summons visitors from around the world. Then and only then can you make your decision on the NUSEL project.

Carl Bergren
Leavenworth

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