Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.
~Sam Walter Foss
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
So what are you going to do about it? What am I going to do about it? I am still figuring it out. I am still thinking, what will really make a difference? What can save the forests, oceans, rivers, fish, and birds? The industrial machine fights so hard and has so much power, money, and sway. If I rush off to my little corner of the woods and start a farm and live in a self-sufficient manner, so much the better for me. But what about the world outside of my 5 hypothetical acres? Nature gives and gives and we take and take. How do we lessen the taking? How do we give back? Can we turn the ecological clock backward in time 50, 100, 200 years?
Before we burned up all the oil and cut down the trees and polluted the water and destroyed the ecosystems and made the animals go extinct. Can people remember that things weren't always like this? That humans are not above nature, but are part of it.
