After declaring Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be "fragile as a snowflake," former tour guide John Balzar describes the actual terrain in the Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2001:

I remember the vista. From the 1,000-foot summit of the last foothill of this continent: a shocking landscape. Plains, uninterrupted from horizon to horizon. Hundreds of miles and 180 degrees of Nothing.

There is nothing like Nothing when there is almost none of it left. There is nothing like Nothing for imagining everything. There is nothing so profoundly humbling as beholding the last of Nothing.

Now the House of Representatives has voted to kill it....

[Ed.: It's all very... Seinfeld, isn't it?]

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