You're firemountain-glass... You're a gift of the earth - but Father Earth hates us, never forget, and his gifts are neither free nor safe.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company;I say the Earth is angryBecause he lives alone.

We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources within. And the hoarders were the core of the problem.

Remember, too , that the Earth does not fully understand us. It looks upon human beings and sees short-lived, fragile creatures, puzzlingly detached in substance and awareness from the planet on which their lives depend, who do not understand the harm they tried to do--perhaps because they are so short-lived and fragile and detached.