To look upon the massive culverts which direct water runoff underneath the logging roads, and then to situate those roads within the greater expanse of clearcut forest, one can begin to make out the extent of which the desire of a great, materially efficacious power can shape an entire landscape.
Large swathes of land are lifted up and protected as roads, and the water is whisked away, and whole forests are leveled radically changing the landscape and the ecosystems within. This is desire that literally moves mountains, for the purpose of feeding in the earth and processing it and transforming it radically, at a scale that is staggering.
A little desire and the power to change can be quite nice. Who doesn't love a food forest, or a little garden for that matter? But what we are doing is enormous, sometimes incomprehensibly so. And soft squishy things like us should beware of the large heavy things we've set in motion to carry out our desires.
