Via wired.com
I thought this was interesting. Land developers and large companies might one day have an incentive that they understand/care about (money) to conserve and protect wildlife in the areas they affect.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/conderivatives.html
-geoff
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
by Wendell Berry
