Exhaling as much oxygen as possible in hopes that it will clear more minds to help realize that protecting earth is protecting humanity's future.
Methuselah Tree (P. longaeva) ..
Old Growth Ancient Forests (before they disappear).
I'm too late. But I wish I could've met Baijii
(Lipotes vexillifer is functionally extinct as of 2006)
Let us not lose another beautiful animal.
Or tree.
Or river.
Please visit my friends below. They're impassioned by their purpose and work tirelessly to keep your world a better place to live in. Please pick a cause. Any cause. Help them. Donate your time. Spread the word. Start small. Go local. See what you can do in your neighborhood. Or in your own backyard. See what you can do now.
No matter what you chose to make your cause we all will benefit -- because everything is connected.
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
An Inconvenient Truth
Kinda hard to get cable out here but when I get the chance I enjoy PBS NOVA, FRONTLINE & Stephen Colbert
When you get a chance please read these books.
Go to the library, buy one that's used and save a tree or two.
The Everglades: River of Grass
by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
The Dying of the Trees
by Charles E. Little
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
John Muir
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Theodore Roosevelt
"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."
Rachel Carson
"This, however, is not just a question of morality or ethics, but a question of our own survival. For this generation and for future generations, the environment is very important. If we exploit the environment in extreme ways, we will suffer, as will our future generations. When the environment changes, the climatic condition also changes. When the climate changes dramatically, the economy and many other things change. Our physical health will be greatly affected. Again, conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival."
Dalai Lama
"We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Ghandi
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them; their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of the their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas