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safeguards for watersheds, fields and woodlands which cannot be economically farmed.
It is a pretty good time at the dawning of 1986, with this new governor in place, to take longer view of open space as a profitable resource in itself, both to people here and to our neighbors around us. Open space and land and trees and streams give everything; they demand no tax services. ^
There is not much of this stuff left in this part of America; certainly there is nothing as plainly beautiful to the eye.
Our natural open fields, hills and woodlands over the centuries have helped form our very character and shaped our history as a county and as a people. Open spaces are‘the main reason so many have come here to make their family home, and why so few ever want to leave.
Something will have gone out of us as people here if we should let these remaining open spaces be destroyed, if we permit the last woodlands to be turned into carpenter’s boards and comic books, if we drive the few remaining wild birds and animals to zoos or extinction, if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean stream and widen our roads for traffic through the last of the silence — so that Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke and Rappahannock become just another indistinct blur to future travelers passing through the needless Urban sprawl from Washington, D.C., and Fairfax and Prince William counties.
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