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Joe Gray

We’ve strangled all her trees and starved her creatures

There’s poison in the sea and in the air

But worst of all we’ve learned to live without her

We’ve lost the very meaning of our lives

And now she’s gonna die

— A verse from Death of Mother Nature Suite by Kansas (1974)

It was shortly after the winter solstice, eight years ago, when I did something that I had done nothing quite like before. Triggered by th...