 There is a "garbage patch" in the pacific ocean greater than the size of Texas.
On his return voyage, after a 1997 yacht race to Hawaii, Charles J. Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain, veered from the usual sea route and saw an ocean he had never known. "Every time I came on deck to survey the horizon, I saw a soap bottle, bottle cap or a shard of plastic waste..."
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 by David Brower with Steve Chapple.
Asked how many people the Earth can sustain indefinitely, Harvard professor E. O. Wilson, certainly one of the world's great biologists, replied: "If they have the appetite for resources of Japan and the United States, 200 million." This was reported to me in Kyoto by Dr. David Suzuki, Canadian biologist and commentator. I'd never heard so low a figure, and finally got Professor Wilson on the telephone to check up. Had he said that? "No," he responded, "but it sounds reasonable."
by David Brower with Steve Chapple. Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
 by Daisaku Ikeda.
The destruction of nature is the destruction of humanity. Nature is our home. All life on this planet, including, of course, human life, was born from the natural environment. We don't owe our existence to machines or science. Because of that, the further we alienate ourselves from nature, the more unbalanced we become. Our future as a species is grim unless we recognize this.
by Dirk Mathison. I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. --ROSA PARKS, on her decision to sit in the white's only section of a bus.
Transformations is a column about mankind?s evolution towards the purity of justice, fairness, equality, freedom, and absence of tyranny.
 by Gareth Patterson.
Recently I began to understand that unless we address the health of the earth, collectively and holistically, the symptoms of our own inner health will persist and will worsen. The health of the planet and our own inner health are one.
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