The Indians Say:

The land has an owner? How's that? How is it to be sold? How is it to be bought? If it does not belong to us, well, what? We are of it. We are its children. So it is always, always. The land is alive. As it nurtures the worms, so it nurtures us. It has bones and blood. It has milk, and gives us suck. It has hair, grass, straw, trees. It knows how to give birth to potatoes. It brings to birth houses. It brings to birth people. It looks after us and we look after it. It drinks chicha, accepts our invitation. We are its children. How is it to be sold? How bought? from Memory of Fire Volume 1: Genesis, by Eduardo Galeano

... on the occasion of Earth Day, ruminating on what happens when ideas of rights and property ownership collide with closed-systems ecologies and resource consumption limits.