THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, April 1, 1995                TAG: 9503310027
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A10  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

WE'LL PAY

We have cut down the forests, dammed the rivers, littered the land with toxic wastes and fouled the air we breathe.

We have, indeed, brought Nature to her knees.

Or have we?

As Thomas Carlyle said many years ago, ``Nature keeps silently a most exact Savings Bank and official register correct to the most evanescent item - and, at the end of the account, you will have it all to pay, My Friend - there's the rub.''

Nature is already beginning to call in her loans.

ELIZABETH SYKES

Norfolk, March 28, 1995 by CNB