"The land on which we live has always shaped us. It has shaped the wars,
the power, politics, and social development of the peoples that now
inhabit nearly every part of the earth. Technology may seem to
overcome
the distances between us in both mental and physical space, but it is
easy
to forget that the land where we live, work, and raise our children
is
hugely important and that the choices of those who lead the seven
billion
inhabitants of this planet will to some degree always be shaped by
the
rivers, mountains, deserts, lakes, and seas that constrain us all—as
they
always have." |