Today we are suppose to view Waller Creek in a different way; to see it from a different point of view. And in this different point of view we should open our minds to a less dualistic way. I accept and understand this and yet I find it very hard to do. We, Americans, are apt to change but we have very distinct ways of dualistically thinking from our culture.

And now I am a Peruvian Incan Indian who roams the high city of Cuzco. From time to time I visit Manchu Pichu for spiritual reasons. As I am brought to Waller Creek the first thing I see are the white masses guiding the water through the creek. As I move closer I see that these masses are rocks. I think they highlight the creek in extraordinary way.

I am saddened as my eyes move around the scene. All I can see is trash embedded within the roots and brush surrounding the creek. How could people trash such sacred land? I see the result of a "civilized high technology based" society's usage of the land.

I begin to concentrate on individual pieces of trash and one object sticks out. It looks like a can of some sort. It shines reds and silver and presents the letters "Dr. Pepper." I have never seen anything like this before. I suppose it could be used for anything. Americans always come up with the silliest inventions just so they can become more lazy. The can looks so advanced like it could be from another planet.

I feel and overwhelming sense of worry for our planet and Nature when I look upon Waller Creek. I take care of my land. Why should such beautiful land be taken away from me when it is others that pollute its soil, water, and air? The future is not yet written but I foresee a world without Nature if live continues on its present course.

I see the slow painful demise of Nature. I hate Americans for their arrogance, their "progress," and their little concern for the world and its future. Their progress of technology, money, and power has meant the deterioration of Nature's purity and slim existence.

Americans do not even have the faintest idea of what they are doing because none of them have ever experienced living with the salts of the earth. If they truly know the land than the could not manipulate it so. The would see "the belief in the unity of life" (Burch 349). They would understand that by hurting Nature they are only hurting themselves. They would see each creature and element has a name and a spirit.

I believe the reason for the ignorance of the land spawns from their God. The Judeo-Christian belief that God is not here within the earth has altered their way of thinking. They believe he is "up there." So, by using and destroying the land man is causing God no harm. This belief is so foreign to me that one could believe in the separation of creator and creation. They are one and must be respected and treated equally.

I believe another reason for their lack of respect for the land originates in American and European culture of "discover and conquer." Dispose of anything that comes between you and your property. This kind of property includes land, objects, and human beings. American see Nature is such a dualistic view- "I can buy it or sell it." "looking at the opposite poles ... we tend to ignore everything between them and we fail to recognize the dependency of each pole on the other..." (Bump 346).

I do not feel at peace here. I do not see the beauty only the horror to come.