"So long as never-ending economic growth remains the goal of our governments and our major financial institutions, and so long as the corporate bottom line continues to put immediate profit above the future of our children and so long as so many of the world's inhabitants continue to live in unalleviated poverty, the crimes against the natural world will continue.
We who care, we who understand, must use every means at our disposal to fight back. We shall lose some of the battles -- but we must not give up. And we have a powerful ally, for nature, ever resilient and resourceful, will, given time, clothe a devastated landscape with green growing things so that it becomes a place where animals can once again thrive. Of course it can take a very long time indeed for such an area to become a well-functioning ecosystem with diverse flora and fauna. But when the right people--those who truly understand the dynamics of a healthy ecosystem, who have learned by watching, and who are prepared to accept that nature may know best--work in harmony with natural systems, the healing process can be speeded up."
~Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
We who care, we who understand, must use every means at our disposal to fight back. We shall lose some of the battles -- but we must not give up. And we have a powerful ally, for nature, ever resilient and resourceful, will, given time, clothe a devastated landscape with green growing things so that it becomes a place where animals can once again thrive. Of course it can take a very long time indeed for such an area to become a well-functioning ecosystem with diverse flora and fauna. But when the right people--those who truly understand the dynamics of a healthy ecosystem, who have learned by watching, and who are prepared to accept that nature may know best--work in harmony with natural systems, the healing process can be speeded up."
~Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
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