The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it. . . In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.
Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.
Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.
I wanted to be somewhere else. . . Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.