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:: Life, living, and wisdom
From David Suzuki News?�Apr 02, 2003:?�How sustainable is our development?:

"In a gram of soil, there may be one billion individual single-celled organisms and millions more multicells. In that same soil sample, there may be 4,000 different species - almost all of them completely unknown to scientists. Soil is the foundation upon which the rest of terrestrial life depends - the total weight of microorganisms underground exceeds the weight of all life above - yet knowing almost nothing about its makeup, we deplete its organic content and alter it with chemical fertilizers and pesticides."

It is said that the one significant attribute of humans, of our being, is that we know our ultimate fate, that we as we breath and live life, we will in time die; other beings do not-- they simply live and die unaware of anything but their own being. It is also true that we (as a whole) are incredibly stupid and narrowly focused by the concerns of our individual egos. That each one of us thinks we are the exception to this, that we alone are above the folly and vanity of the rest, proves it. May we each grow in wisdom, it is our only salvation.