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Walt Whitman: Patron Saint of Nomads.(Brief Article)

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From: Earth Island Journal
Date: 20000622
Author:Lionheart, John Henry

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.

--Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road," from Leaves of Grass, 1856.

California -- In June 1999, the Albany City Council announced plans to evict 80 homeless individuals from a colorful array of shacks they had built on an abandoned landfill in San Francisco Bay. The land had been littered with trash and construction debris until the squatters moved in, building homes, planting gardens and erecting sculptures.

Albany officials promised to provide ...

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