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but wetlands, which are disappearing at some phenomenal rate down along the coast of Louisiana where he lives. But you could just substitute trout for ducks, and rivers for wetlands, and see what I'm talking about. There is a little bit of profanity in here, because Dave is a profane guy, but I don't see anybody under the age of 12, so I'm going to read it anyway. This is what Dave says, he says, "Our problem in this modem world is total estrangement from nature. In dem urban ghettos where some people don't even know what a tree looks like, how could you expect that there wouldn't be killings and lootings and drugs? These Cajun people.." He's talking about, of course, as we're driving along we were talking about the disappearance of the Cajun marshes. "These Cajun people have some of the best character in the world, because they live right with Mother Nature. Where the hell do people think Cajun culture came from? It didn't grow up on Bourbon Street. You take away nature, you lose the culture. It's the same all over the world. The indigenous cultures we got left can't survive without nature and wildlife." And you could say the same thing about Native Ameri- cans here and Eskimos up in Alaska. "Cajun culture is about the only one we've got in this country, other than the Indians and the Eskimos, and they're hurting bad. I don't know how long those cultures can survive all the goddamned insidiousness that our culture does to them. We've got to preserve the resource that the culture's based on. Otherwise, we lose both. That's true here as much as it is in the Amazon Basin. What does this country lose when a man like Dennis Triteler (who is a shrimper/former poacher we had been speaking with who had decided to give it up because everything was disap- pearing and he was going to bake doughnuts.) "What does this culture lose when a man like Dennis Triteler has to move up the road and bake doughnuts for a living? What do all the people crammed along the Eastern Seaboard lose when the waterfowl habitat's all gone, and they can't sit on their lawn at night and listen to them honkers go overhead? Those ducks and geese mean there's wilderness left somewhere. There's a little piece of the planet we haven't messed up. Man, people try to put a dollar sign on it all. 'Well, this marsh produces so and so many ducks and that means so and so much from license fees and it means so and so many hunters stop and buy gas and coffee and doughnuts." (In other words, exactly the argument I was making to you 10 minutes ago.) "It's all true, but those arguments are bullshit. It's like a disease. We've got so little left. We should save it all. All this calculatin' and figurin' and this is worth what compared to that. God damn it!" Thank you very much. 10