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."
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
~ William Sloane Coffin Jr. in THE COLLECTED SERMONS OF WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN - THE RIVERSIDE YEARS