But the environment is also often the most powerful and positive catalyst to action too. We'll try to bring the people back into the city instead of seeing them keep pushing further out into the Glades. Let me say what you all know well. These efforts are hard . The processes are protracted and messy.
Tempers can, and most certainly do, flare.
Often patience may not only seem a virtue, but herculean and impossible at times. But we must work it out. There is no other way. What you engage in here and what Udall Center strives for is vitally important. It is a service to our environment, but it is much more than that, too.