Prologue

Andrei:		A book of poetry and art about the environment – hmm.
Jules:		What good are a bunch of words 'n pictures?
Ellesha:		Who knows? It's hard to measure the value of anything.
Jules:		I know several so-called 'environmental authors' now living like Les 500. Words are an over-rated resource, n'est-ce pas ?
Andrei:		And this Newfields comrade – what did he actually do? Did he walk his talk?
Ellesha:		We know little about him. He was born, died & few details survive.
Philyra:		If you look closely enough, the details are generally there: most people are too lazy to examine things closely.
Jules:		I don't care about the author – he works can speak for themselves.
Soo:		The things we create do not reveal who they are, but perhaps who we are trying to be. In some ways that's more important. Our aspirations of this day give us some idea about who we might be tomorrow.