For all our technological achievements,
our very lives tremble upon the
delicate scales of nature. We are as ultimately dependent upon
the ancient
verities of land and sky as were the prehistoric cliff dwellers.
Man has
not yet completed the full circle toward a realization that his
own
laws of life must conform in the long view with those greater
laws to
which he still and forever owes allegiance.
Man at last has conquered the land.
But to what ultimate end no
one can say. There is only a vague, inquiet feeling that in all
his scheme
of domination there is something he might have forgotten. It
may well be
that the river itself will have the last word after all.
-- FRANK WATERS
