With the balance, it becomes a lot of hard work—I'll put it that way. In anything that you do in life, there is a balance of hard work, determination and boundaries that one must cross.
I sit here today and I speak in English. It's not my first language, and I apologize to my elders that I don't speak in my mother tongue, my father tongue, to everybody here. The balance that we do see and talk about, again, will come from the natural laws, ceremonies and the things that we believe are holy and sacred. Jeremy talked about that earlier.
It would be nice if we can have that type of engagement from the other side coming to our side as well. Let's just say it: There are a lot of things that happen. The wildfires.... You make a comment there and I feel for the families who have their homes burnt up and destroyed. They say a lot of these fires come from people coming out from the city and not understanding wilderness. The ones who are doing the due diligence to let the people come out and enjoy hiking, we have to engage with them. We have to ask ourselves why these people are going out there throwing a cigarette? A lot of these wildfires are happening from that.
The respect to the land is something that we carry. It's understanding—again, I always go back to this—the creation stories. We have that connection to the cosmos, to the stars, sun, moon, mother earth and to all things that matter, that live, ones that walk, swim, fly, crawl and grow. We have that connection.
Thank you.