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Without a doubt, both rural ana urban dwellers have an interest in the use of our natural resources, particularly the soil. This interest goes beyond the present use of our land. It must take into consideration the demands ’that will ibe placed on the land by future generations, and the obligation that man has to those who will follow him. After all, to whom does the land really belong? To you? To me? Isn’t it a fact that it doesn't belong to any of us at all? Aren’t we really just stewards of the land as well as everything we acquire in life?
We come int.o the world with nothing and leave it the same way. For we return to the land from whence we came, and what we leave behind us we leave to those who come after us.
Perhaps this is what makes us feel a close kinship to the earth. Or it may be that the earth is that part of nature that the poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge spoke of as the “agent” between God and man. Whatever the reason, each of us has a feeling of closeness to the land and through the land to the Creator of it. And with that closeness we are struck with the impact of the permanence of the land. Then we realize that although we may live an hundred years, the land will be here long after we are gone.
This is why the care of the land becomes so important to us.
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