Dogs smoke in France.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.
If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.