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• This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
  -- H. Ross Pero...
• We make most of our mistakes when we are optimistic. -- Don Herold
• We have glimpsed the dawn even in our city's darkest hour.
  -- Rev. Don Alexander at ceremony for families of Oklahoma City bombing...
• The weather is the part of this planet's career that we can notice in our back yards.
• In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies.
  It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth....
• If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence
  hen we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy-- *sic transit gloria mundi*....
• As long as there have been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos.
  Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe....
• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  -- Don Marqui...
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....