Trust the Land

The land knows.
The land speaks to us
if only you and I might
listen to it,
learn its language
live in concert with it,
so we might live
more harmonious lives ourselves,
so our children might
revel in green hills,
open fields, wooded tracts,
so our grandchildren
might live at all.

Hear the tale of the land today,
know that the land remembers.

Trust the land
every day of the year,
trust the land,
            trust the land.

By Jonah Raskin
December 2009
for the Sonoma Land Trust

Author Jonah Raskin

John Millar and SLT executive director Ralph Benson

SLT chair Mark Jacobsen