If you sign up for it (link) The Sierra Club will send you a "daily ray of hope" which is a thoughtful photo and a thoughtful quote in the way of hope for the earth and we its inhabitants. For instance here is today's:
Me: I love bears. Teddy bear picnic, the dump bears in the U.P., the bears in Yellowstone that we fed marshmallows through the window of our 57 Impala when we 'saw the USA in our Chevrolet'. I remember the day I realized that if I live an average span, then the polar bears as a race of unique beings were going to go extinct in my lifetime. Because of my love of comfort.
"For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear."
-- Henry Beston
Me: Henry Beston wrote a classic gardening/philosophy book, which I love to re-read, "Herbs and the Earth". Find a copy.
