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Today's library research topic is wilderness preservation, and after spending a few hours reading about the formation of The Wilderness Society back in the early decades of the 20th century, I took a break and headed over to their website. At the top of their site I found this:

"We have not inherited our world from our forefathers - We have borrowed it from our children. -- Kashmiri Proverb

Erm, OK... Wow.

All this reminds me that I've let my Wilderness Society membership lapse. I might be a broke grad student, but these guys are too important not to support. With their primary focus on wilderness, and not parks, forests, monuments, or other reserves, they help look after and defend our most wild and precious places. I know its fashionable for political bloggers to suggest donations to political candidates, but it seems to me that political cuases are just as worthy. So... got some extra loot? Throw a bit their way.

"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." -- The 1964 Wilderness Act

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