The recent flood of environmental literature mourns our values and actions which have led to such predictable results. Our value systems, making use of the available science and technology, have wrought changes in the land and its meaning which neither the land nor the human spirit can accommodate with ease; crises of both an environmental and a spiritual nature are inevitable. As solutions are sought for environmental problems and attempts made to adjust our way of life to an environment finite in space and resources, the method must be a humanized one. The central image of the many-faceted individual in a kaleidoscopic environment is derived as much from the humanist as it is from the scientist and the engineer. (Author/KSM)