“I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else and that our dignity and our chances are one. 

The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family, and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. 

The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves - we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. 

We are each other's destiny."