Not Man and Nature

The uniqueness of our area cannot be expressed better than it was by Charles Bowden, who wrote about it in his book The Secret Forest:
“Here man and nature becomes a silly phrase, a distinction without meaning in the forest. Here it is people in nature, or better yet, simply nature, a word that means all living things. Tourism will become a kind of survival drill. We will no longer dutifully check off the art galleries, the cathedrals, the four-star restaurants. Instead we will make probes in order to learn how to live. We will visit people who know how to live in ways we have forgotten or ways we never knew in the first place. We will do this in order to find the way home, the way to make a home, keep a home, and cherish a home.”