If anyone wants to see the effect people are having on the planet, just cast your glance out your front window at nearly any tree on the horizon. Bet you locate at least one plastic grocery bag tangled in the branches.

But there's another side to the issue, too, not just endangered wild life. Even though Chief Seattle did not say the words, nonetheless, they are true:

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together.
All things connect.

Rainsong