Dr Abe V Rotor
and I haven't fired a shot since then, too,
for
the wild has shrunk, the places I used to go -
the shores and forests - now I hardly know.
Where
have all the wildlife gone? I think I know;
I hiked o'er the hill for a bundle of wood,
waded
downstream to complete my favored stew,
progress was unheard of, and life was good.
Is
progress taming the wild and
farming the seas,
building golf range on grasslands, houses on fields,
ranches,
plantations of crops and forest trees -
or progress an accident of growing needs?
When
Nature becomes spent and overpowered,
pushed by growing affluence and number,
the
wild leaves the world in waste and disorder,
and a lesson for us all to remember.~
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