I was a thief then like everybody else, I took at least a ton of rock out of the creek. She ran wild in the street. People died in that flood. Houses washed into the creek and again I survived having never taken public action. After that flood, the state decided it was time to put a moratorium on rock 'takings' from places like Lytle Creek but only after the people decided enough was enough.
People laugh at the thought that there are some who feel rocks have rights.
Yes, rocks have rights. They come by way of the service they provide. We should give rocks the freedom to perform their purpose. Not the purpose we assign, but the one they perform naturally. When the rocks on the ground fail to hold our toxins in one place we have to recognize that they cannot serve this purpose.