“Without dignity, of course, people are powerless.
Strip a person or the land of dignity and you can direct
any scheme you wish against them or it, with impunity
and with the best of motives.
To some this kind of efficiency is a modern technique,
lamentable but not evil. For others it is a debilitating
degradation, a loss of integrity and spirit that no kind
of economic well-being can ever justify.”
Excerpted from “Arctic Dreams”, author Barry Lopez.
Publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
Also published simultaneously in Canada by
Collier Macmillan Canada.
Islander.