A view of the night sky from the Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona. Photo: Ameer Basheer/Unsplash
Americans invented the idea of national parks. They sing of amber waves of grain and sublime purple mountain majesties. They’ve made the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone shrines of national identity and idealise nature in speeches, literature, painting, photography and architecture.
And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity and politics, with contradictory conceptions of nature at the heart of a broken national consensus.
To Native Americans, nature and culture are inseparable, and the identity and the history of a tribe is thoroughly interwoven with specific places, such as Rainbow Bridge or the San Francisco Peaks. In contrast, many White Americans embrace wilderness, defined as nature that is free of human presence, with no roads, telephone lines or electricity. The wilderness is, to them, eternal and pre-human, an idea at odds with b
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atrocious. it is not the mark of a a leader of the united states of america. i am deal deeply disturbed. . i m going to tell you what i really think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he doesn t know the difference between truth and lies. he lies practically every word that come us out of his mouth. what trump represents is the ultimate loud, brash, big protest vote. it doesn t matter that he doesn t have specific policy proposals. it doesn t matter that he s not as glib and presentable maybe as some of the professional politicians. the last sound byte with governor huntsman who is the u.s. ambassador to russia. my point is there are all these criticisms from members of congress, some of whom make the cut to become members of the cabinet and some don t.
but you have governor huntsman who will have a a key role with russia. how does certain people who criticized the president make it through and others not at all. if it you look at huntsman, at a certain point the president has to govern. and you need somebody given all of the large role that russia is playing in his presidency, he needs somebody who is experienced ask get this done. huntsman was ambassador to china. he has experience in dealing with an adversarial relationship. the thing that s most interesting about selection and e he really doesn t like people who are bringing on with him and then weren t and with him and weren t. and that s what huntsman is.
gave him. well, governor huntsman, let me take this from a different angle, because i think the comments from martin o malley and you have both him and donald trump signing on to this, gets to one of the criticism. 25 million jobs over the next ten years, securing social security, balancing the federal budget, energy security by 2024. it s hard to be against any of those things in principle. so does the fact that you can get donald trump and martin o malley to sign off on them, say these are two watered down to mean anything. well, that s the beauty of our gathering here, the fact that we can get a very diverse cross section of politicians. a bipartisan group which here in new hampshire for an event like this is absolutely unprecedented, steve. much like the october summit we had to problem-solving, where we had eight candidates, a bipartisan group. that s the beauty of what we re trying to do. we re not talking about the here and now, what the candidates