I think Humanity exists for Humanity’s sake, so that we can live and feel and love. Whatever pain or joy there may be in that, I find the most perfect beauty not based on how happy each of us are or the greater utility of the world, but because it is real… because everything has meaning to us and because that meaning is real. For me, there is no more profound truth than the reality of meaning.

I see nature as a beautiful miracle. The chances of life coming together in this place and in this way are ridiculously small, and the blessing of a consciousness that allows us to understand that should (should) inspire a world to appreciate it. This system is a blip in time (as far as the eternity of the universe is concerned), and it seems to me only logical that we would want to prolong this miraculous experience of Life as long as possible. And, of course, that involves protecting the world that sustains us.