Everyone needs to contribute something to making the world a better place - otherwise you are useless to the planet.
What Gives Me Hope
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
I have a million things to write here, so I'll need to tackle this one during the Summer Holidays. I usually say "If I were Queen....."
What/who changed my life and why
My grandma taught me to love gardening.
Growing up watching Jacques Cousteau.
Learning about Jane Goodall as a kid and listening to her speak in Vancouver in 2005.
Reading Whale Nation
Watching the Discovery Channel
Visiting The Galapagos Islands
If people were superior to animals, they'd take better
care of the world.
Winnie the Pooh
The greatness of a nation . . . and its moral progress, can be measureed by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
St. Francis of Assisi
From a single acorn a thousand forests grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference in mind between man and the lower animals, great as it is, is one of degree and not of kind.
Charles Darwin
The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.
Chief Seattle
Our task must be to free ourselves, by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, and the whole of nature, and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."
Kenyan proverb