O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace. - Albert Schweitzer

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good reasons for this omission. For what are we doing, when we establish hard and fast gradations in value between living organisms, but judging them in relation to ourselves, by whether they seem to stand closer to us or farther from us. This is a wholly subjective standard. How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe?

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.