"Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world."
[Rachel Carson - Silent Spring]
"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future."
[Dian Fossey - the final entry in her journal before being murdered by gorilla poachers]
“All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from this perspective, the periodic system appears to be rather insignificant. But the fact remains that we live on the earth… where the relative abundance of elements is quite different.”
[Sam Kean - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness,
Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements]