"The deep and tragic confusion here is that this pose of responsibility, this harkening to a heritage of ennobled independence, has no historical foundation in America. Outside of single individuals and a few small groups that attended to the responsibilities of living on the land and the reciprocities involved, the history of the use of the American landscape has been lawless exploitation. When an industry asks to police itself, we must have the courage to note that there is no precedent, that the entrenched precedent from the time of the Spanish, is the lawlessness in the quest for the wealth, with the extension of enough local generosity to keep from being run out of town, enough respect for institutions to keep from being hauled before the bar, and enough patriotism to be given the benefit of the doubt by society."