thinking we own the world is probably one of the characteristics that helped us survive. My dogs think they own the world (and me!) also. But learning to respect the natural world is something that other cultures have nurtured but we have not.
I hope it is true that we have reached the point were the latest generation understands what this is about. It should be taught in the third grade--and every grade thereafter--the basics of ecology, and the truth about the birds and the bees--and the penguins, giant pandas and white tigers. In so many past cultures -- the sacred domain included the sun, the wind, the soil, the forests and our brothers who live there. Somehow these treasures were disregarded and lost. How sad that children would be born into a world without dragonflies. I hope that time is past. Perhaps if each of us takes a small person's hand on a walk through what is left of the natural world around us, a dent will be made to counter the generation of ignorance who tried to destroy it.
