On 8/7/07 23:26, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote:

The message from Sacha contains these
words:

On 8/7/07 18:08, in article , "Bob
Williams" wrote:

Beryl Harwood wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
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I suppose we're part of nature, too and deserve our own habitat
therefore. But what seems to me to be important is to teach children how
to live *with*
what is around them rather than in spite of it. As top of the
food chain
I think it rather depends on us to do that.

True, whilst I know we can't go back to the kind of life lived by the
native americans had [still have in some places I think] I wish we could
follow the love/care and understanding of the earth that they had. I
still fully appreciate all the modern 'luxuries' like bathrooms,
dishwashers, cars etc,etc. It would be hard to give them up even if
sometimes I would love to be able to live a simpler life.

Beryl
There was a nice Native American proverb quoted on the Live Earth concert:

'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

I like that *very* much.

I also like:

"Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

- Cree Indian Prophecy

How very true. We were with a mutual friend this w/e and were discussing
this kind of thing and the disparity of money earned to good produced etc.
and the conclusion was "if you were on a desert island would you rather your
companion was a merchant banker or a nurse'!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'