Lasting Change Is A Series Of Compromises.

We're The Ones Who Can Make A Difference. If We Lead Lives Where We Consciously Leave The Lightest Possible Ecological Footprints, If We Buy The Things That Are Ethical For Us To Buy And Don't Buy The Things That Are Not, We Can Change The World Overnight.

If Everybody On The Planet Today Had The Same Standard Of Living As The Average European Or American, We Would Need Three New Planets. But We Don't Even Have One New Planet. We Have This One, And With The Way We're Polluting It, The Shrinking Water Resources, The Climate Change, The Experimentation With Plants... The Outlook Is Grim.

Especially Now When Views Are Becoming More Polarized, We Must Work To Understand Each Other Across Political, Religious And National Boundaries.

Words Can Be Said In Bitterness And Anger, And Often There Seems To Be An Element Of Truth In The Nastiness. And Words Don't Go Away, They Just Echo Around.

If Plants Could Be Credited With Reasoning Powers, We Would Marvel At The Imaginative Ways They Bribe Or Ensnare Other Creatures To Carry Out Their Wishes.