"Talk to Papago Indians.
They're
Desert People.
They know
desert secrets
that no one else
knows.
Ask
how they live
in a place
so harsh and dry.
They'll say
they like
the land they live on
so they treat it well
the way you'd treat
an old friend.
They sing it songs.
They never hurt it.
And the land knows."
The Desert Is Theirs
Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall's poem about sustaining a relationship with the land.