The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
~ Coretta Scott King
What we need are guardians — guardians committed to the middle path of mindfulness and dedicated to the enormous task of restoring and healing our ravaged planet. Guardians who have penetrated the anthropocentric notions of our civilization and who, as Aldo Leopold said, can begin to "think like a mountain" and acknowledge that we are only "plain embers of the biotic community."