'So much beauty at stake'

I wonder how to stay calm with so much beauty at stake... But the playing field is the planet earth, and I for one have no place else to go.
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People *need* wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do... It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully.
  -Barbara Kingsolver

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
  -Wendell Berry