My favourite quote from this |-- very well-written article --|:
- "How big am I? As an individual, five foot two and whistling. At a government level, I find I’ve shrunk, smaller than the X on my ballot paper. But at a community level, I can breathe in five river-sources and breathe out three miles of green valleys."
It comes from the latest edition of the Orion magazine, which has as its core value "the fundamental conviction that humans are morally responsible for the world in which we live, and that the individual comes to sense this responsibility as he or she develops a personal bond with nature."
Sounds pretty damn good to me.