{"content":[{"text":"larger environment. The plastic bottles are petroleum products; the factories that make \n the bottles use fossil fuels; the trucks and planes that transport the bottles use fossil fuels; \n the disposal of the bottles entails the use of yet more fossil fuels. And so once again, it is \n by looking up and downstream that we come to see the big picture--a picture of impacts. \n It is heartening to note, though, that here in Central Pennsylvania we are slowly \n coming to see ourselves as embedded in a water system--the Spring Creek Watershed, \n part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. But we still have a good ways to go. Yes, it \n is important to install water saving showers and composting toilets but even more \n fundamental as to cultivate the a profound mindfulness of our place in the water cycle. \n Donella Meadows says it best: \"If we could see a watershed fully, we would treat water \n with as much reverence as our own blood, because that's actually what it is--the lifeblood \n of the planet and of all the creatures that live here, including ourselves.\"","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.093051,"width":0.704475,"height":0.20680300000000001}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}