Why Did We Start This Blog?
05.11.09 11:21 AMWell—the real reason is that we believe that the preservation of Tennessee’s open spaces and its historic sites is critical to the well-being of all Tennesseans. We are all so much the better if we preserve our land, forests, farms, rivers, flora, fauna, and places of historic importance. Wallace Stegner perhaps captured this feeling best when he wrote the following to Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior under President Kennedy:
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wildness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste…We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." (emphasis ours). Quoted most recently in an essay by Nancy Huddleston Parker titled “Wallace Stegner a Passionate and Committed Heart,” which appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of The Sewanee Review.
And in Tennessee, one of the best tools available to preserve our open spaces and our historic identity is a conservation easement.
This blog will seek to stir up dialogue about the use of this single great tool which can be employed by private citizens and governmental entities alike to ensure that future generations will forever understand the beauty and history of this wonderful State.
looks great
– Becky Dan · May 11, 2009, 12:28PM
Really well done - your firm should be proud of you both. Good luck with this blog/initiative going forward!
– Al's Dad · May 12, 2009, 7:46AM