There was a trend where US Troops during WWII, would scrawl, on walls carve into trees, spray paint on abandoned vehicles, the phrase, ‘Kilroy Was Here’. It served as notice to enemy troops/Civilian populations that AMERICAN soldiers were in the area. It was US Troops marking territory, leaving their Mark.
Humans, like most semi-predatory animals, are territorial. We often CAN NOT go someplace New without leaving SOME Mark that will notify others we’ve BEEN there (Note: There is an American flag on the Moon). This is true from the Institutional Level to an Individual one but on the Individual level, as noted above, it can actually be MORE destructive to the environment.
Very recently, there have been appearances of unadorned & unexplained Monoliths in remote locations around the world (Likely Art installations of some type). Mysteriously placed, the inigma of who’s doing this and why has attracted quite a bit of public attention. So much so that one of the Monoliths, located in the Sandstone Hills of Utah, was eventually dismantled and removed by environmental activists. Why? Because a LOT of people, unsure of the Monoliths EXACT location, were driving around searching for it in All-Terrain Vehicles, in order to see it/take selfies along side it. All this new activity was subsequently tearing up the naturally formed Sandstone Hills and utterly disrupting the environment. Someone left their Mark and everyone had to SEE it. Personally.
TL;DR- Reatraint: Resist the urge to leave your Mark. Endevor to leave NO MARK AT ALL. Even on the smallest pebble.
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