2 Quotes

The first quote I chose was from Stephen Meyer's "The End of the Wild," page 8.
"Fundamental is the nation of a landscape where the handprint of humanity is invisible and specifically where the forces of natural selection smother those of human selection. The problem is that there is virtually no place on Earth that fits this description."
I'm not sure if we're supposed to explain why we chose these, but basically I lived in Washington state this summer and did a lot of hiking. I was surprised that even at altitudes of 8,000 feet on Mount Rainier, there were tourist shops and litter and other degradation. This was kind of shocking and also eye-opening to the fact that humans are everywhere! I don't think that we need to move out of these natural places, but we just need to be more conscious of our actions.

The second quote is from Meghan's blog post about "The Story of Stuff." I really believe that "The Story of Stuff" should be showed in schools, even if just for its' basic take home message of excessive consumption, and the chain that goods come from. I also think that all of the uproar over this video was really unfounded, which is why I liked this quote. It basically sums up my feelings on the matter very effectively:
(Meghan was blogging about the impacts/potential negative influences on kid from the movie)..."Frankly this underestimates the intellectual capacity of our children and the instructional skill of our teachers, and overestimates the potency of classroom learning tools. While the conservative pundits who lash out against this film may have had the intellectual capacity of an amoeba in grade school, most children are perfectly able to critically analyze and pull out "take-home messages" of popular, accessible works without the vicious and often irrational partisan bias that seems to permeate contemporary political debate."