We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us. – David Harold Fink

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. – Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children. – Paul R. Ehrlich