We must have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process. That future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited. “Use” as our primary relationship with the planet must be abandoned…

~ Thomas Berry

Sunrise, A New Day – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com