Trees

The ICC would destroy 589 to 794 acres of forest (depending on the alignment selected), of which at least 500 acres are public lands -- this is up more than a third from the last study (1997). Here's a sample acre....

The ICC would fragment 9 forest tracts larger than 100 acres.

Let me learn the lessons
You have hidden in every leaf and rock.

-- Native American Prayer, Let There Be Light, ed. by Jane Breskin Zalben

The "Big Tree", Champion tulip poplar, would have to go.

All ye under the heaven!
Regard heaven as your father, earth as your mother,
And all things as your brother and sisters.

-- Shintoism, God Is In The Mountain, ed. by Ezra Jack Keats

These are treasures.

In dwelling, live close to the ground.

-- Lao-Tzu, Let There Be Light, ed. by Jane Breskin Zalben

Peace and survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities that lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and natural resources results from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

This lack of respect extends even to the earth's human descendents, the future generations who will inherit a vastly degraded planet if world peace does not become a reality, and if destruction of the natural environment continues at the present rate.

-- Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness