As we have now entered the twenty first century, we are left with a depicting question of tomorrow. A fragrance of fruitfulness of a once clear and present beginning. Where we are today is of by no certainty a lead into tomorrow. A once abundant amount of resources shadowed mankind. Now the sun has turned and the shadow no longer exists as our resources are diminishing. The question that should probe all of us today is why. Why have we taken a virgin planet full of abundant resources and miss allocated them? Is this man's natural state of evolution? Is this mother natures assurance that man indeed is not the top of the chain? Or, is it a distressing fact of man's ignorance? .
We have become a species of takers that led to the antagonistic view of our resources. The earth, which was once man's crutch, has now become worn and insubstantial. It is indeed a clear and present danger that because of our actions today our tomorrow is shortened. It is our time to engage not as takers, but in the role of leavers. To leave our footprints, and not our disasters. There has been a clear shift in our resource management. Once taking from the earth, but giving back more is no longer the case. But rather using our resources today as if we bought them on credit. Hoping one day to be able to make minimal payments. Now we have truly forgotten how to survive. Daniel Quinn explains this in his book My Ishmael, when he states, "You know how to build marvelous electronic gadgets, you know how to send ships into space, you know how to peer into the depths of atoms. But the simplest and most needful knowledge of all-the knowledge of how to live-simply doesn't exist among you." Now let us turn and look further into the aspects of leavers and takers.
That river, that is the river that gives me my fish. That tree-stand, that is the tree-stand that supplies me my shelter. And that wheat, that is the wheat that makes my bread.
