“Through our failure to acknowledge our oneness with the total of other population s of biological organisms...we reveal the egocentricity which has brought the world to the point of [environmental] crisis... the separation of man from his ecosystems ... has become an article of faith.”

“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.”

“The sheer weight [of human population] threatens that magnificent kaleidoscope of other living things which also depend on... natural sysytems.”

“[Some diseases] are probably always present in population 'resrvoirs'... and in times of malnutrition or other adverse conditions [manifest]... as population controls.”

“God must see the songbird fall in order to regulate population according to food sources.”

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

“Some things you just have to take on faith and believe in at the risk of getting hurt. It's one of the things that the Fair Folk will never understand, and it's something that sets us apart from them. The fact that each and every time we believe in each other we take a risk. Because we know that it might NOT be the truth. But we also know that it MIGHT be.”