Wendi

“It’s just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet."

--- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

“Our task as humans is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“She was the aurora borealis lighting up the darkest nights with her beauty.”
― Alyssa Karr, For When You Feel Like Giving Up

“Each gene is a word; each organism a book. Each plant species that dies out contains words that have been written only in that book. If a plant species becomes extinct, one book is lost, and with it the words and messages it carried. We are burning the library of Alexandria every time we destroy a hectare of pristine habitat.”
― Carlos Magdalena, The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species