Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures ~His Holiness The Dalai Lama................................................... 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 .................................... There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ~Mohandas ,K.Gandhi ................................... I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford .........................................I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks ..............................To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival ~Wendell Berry ..........................I am not religious but here is my favorite quote from the bible : "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good."