Aztec Poem
c. 13th century • Mexico City
"Do men have roots which are true? No one is oblivious to your richness, which are your flowers. Inventors of yourself! Our common home is the land. In the place afar, Is it also so? In truth it is not the same. On the land: flower and song. We exist here!"
Lane Simonian, Defending the land of the jaguar: a history of conservation in Mexico, (University of Texas Press: 1995), 12.
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