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Filmmaker Q&A with Pamela Tanner Boll of 'To Which We Belong'

Filmmaker Q&A with Pamela Tanner Boll of 'To Which We Belong'

Q: Tell me about the film’s title.

A: It comes from a quote by Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)—a revered environmentalist of the past century. He said, "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." In other words, land is something we can’t live without. Humans don’t live in a vacuum. We depend as much on the health of the ants and the bees and the dung beetles and the soil as we do on the larger flora and fauna.