“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

- Native American proverb

“It seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities —

With his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system —

With all these exalted powers —

Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

– Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man

Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees

in the forest, alive and breathing.

And they’re watching me.

- Haruki Murakami

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If these guys are the good ones, I don't want to know the bad
You wonder how it happened, they just picked it up from dad
While faded old glory is hanging like a rag
Defenders, defenders of the flag

- Bruce Hornsby and The Range, Defenders of the Flag