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CONSERVATION is continually in transition; it will be throughout your lifetime and mine. Discounting outside influence, nature itself is in constant transition. As Robert Burns observed, “Look abroad through nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.” But change has never happened faster than today, and there are no signs that it will slow down.
Fast transportation and immediate communication have made our world much smaller. In the process of becoming smaller, we have daramatically exposed the world's major economic, religious, and political differences. This situation is also true in the communities where we work. We cannot assume that the banker, the baker, or even the elected officials for whom we vote have the same conservation goals as we. So, on the one …
Footnotes
Robert W. Teater is president of Robert W. Teater and Associates, 85 East Gay Street, Suite 711, Columbus, Ohio 43215. This article is an edited version of the 11th annual H. Wayne Pritchard lecture, which he delivered on August 2, 1988, during the 43rd annual meeting of SWCS in Columbus, Ohio.
- Copyright 1988 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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