If you have men

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi

Life is as dear

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. Dalai Lama

It is horrifying that

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

We abuse land because

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. Aldo Leopold