The idea of the festival is to celebrate our culture and our relationship with the natural world and examine how this has influenced our art, music, dance and history over the years. This free festival is a way to celebrate spring, our culture and the many resources of this region.

They incorporate what they've seen here at other parks and nature centers around the country. It's a pretty neat legacy.

The idea was to increase knowledge of green building in the local community.

In green building, that's a long time ago. Probably a generation ago.

We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means - all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.