A Comprehensive Plan for Northeast Santa Cruz County

February 2002

The Sonoita Valley is
a spectacular and inspiring place to live.

Having moved to such a place, there is
a powerful urge to pull up the drawbridge and stock
the moat with alligators.

But there is no justice
in that, no humanity, no equity, not even much of
a righteous cause. Except this:
... at some point
the Sonoita Valley could be loved to death,
and then
it will be gone for everyone.

No matter how virtuous
we all might become as individuals,
a sufficient number of us
doing perfectly ordinary and moral things
will become a force of destruction.

It probably would
be all right to use up a place like the Sonoita Valley,
as long as there was always another one
just down the road.

For much of human history that has been the case,

... or so it seemed.

But ... no ... longer.

page 109, The View from Bald Hill,
Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock.
2000. University of California Press

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