They first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up - because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up - because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up- because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up- because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me- and by that time no one was left to speak up. Pastor Martin Niemoeller (**** Victim) ----------------------------------------------- "Education is what is left when you have forgotten all the facts." Francis Bacon ----------------------------------------------- "Many that live deserve death, and some die that deseve life, can you give that to them? Then be not to eager to deal death out in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." Gandalf the Grey ------------------------------------------------ "Why would a plant give a **** about Mozart?" I remeber him [Timothy Plowman] saying. "And even if it did, why should that impress us? I mean, they can eat light. Isn't that enough.?" He went on to speak of photosynthesis the way an artist might describe color. He said that at dusk the process is reversed and that plants actually emit small amounts of light. He referred to the sap as the green blood of plants, explaining that cloroophyll is structurally almost the same as the pigment of our blood, only the iron in hemoglobin is replaced by magnesium in plants. He spoke of the way plants grow, a seed of grass producing sixty miles of root hairs in a day, six thousand miles over the course of a season a flower pushing its blossom through three inches of pavement a single catkin of a birch tree producing five million grains of pollen a tree living for four thousand years. Unlike every other botanist I had known, he was not obsessed with classification. For him Latin names were like koans or lines of verse. He remembered them effortlessly, taking particular delight in their orgins. "When you say the names of plants," he said at one point, "you say the names of the gods." (One River, by Wade Davis pg 40-41)