Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. |
It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance. |
Lions of the Deep. |
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something, |
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now, |
We all have to take responsibility for the direction we are going. In our schools we are focusing on numbers and letters but we need, from the earliest times, to get across the concept that we are connected to nature and that we are trying to find a space to sustain ourselves. |
We might set up house on Mars but ... we do very little exploring the blue part of the planet. We have done so much skyward, I would like to see us spend more money and effort to explore below us. |
We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us, |
You have to love it before you are moved to save it. |