“What every culture must eventually decide, actively
debate and decide, is what of all that surrounds it,
tangible and intangible, it will dismantle and turn into
material wealth. And what of it’s cultural wealth,
from the tradition of finding peace in the vision of
an undisturbed hillside to a knowledge of how to
finance a corporate merger, it will fight to preserve.”
Excerpted from “Arctic Dreams”, author Barry Lopez.
Publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
Also published simultaneously in Canada by
Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc.
The above excerpt was published in 1986, thirty-
three years ago, it rings so true today as I write.
Islander.