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JULIA BUTIERFL Y: In August 1996 I was in a car wreck. A steering wheel was shoved into my skull and changed the course of my life. It took me ten months of physical and cognitive therapy to recover. During that time I sought for a higher purpose in life. other than what I now call -Society's Creation." Society's Creation is one of an economic structure where the value of profit is placed above that of life experience. If we are not in the structure of making and spending money. we are valueless. This really enraged me. made me feel like. -Wait a minute. there is a purpose for my life outside of making and spending money. and I am going to find out what it isl" I thought the process was going to take me on a journey around the world. but instead it took me on a journey to the redwoods where I saw life in its pure. beautiful form. I saw life as it is meant to be. JB: Some friends of mine were headed out west. Two weeks after I was released from my last doctor. one friend backed out and they needed somebody to cover the expenses of the fourth person. so I hopped on board. I entered the redwoods for the first time and was just blown away by the power and the life force that emanate from these forests. Two weeks later. I found out that if I had walked just a little bit further I would have walked smack into a massive. burnt. napalmed. destroyed clear-cut. I knew that I had to do something. that I couldn't walk away. go around the world. that I had to do something to help stop the destruction. And that's what motivated me to get involved. I found out that