Whatever environmentalism seeks to be, it must not denigrate the uniqueness of human experience. This is because environmental degradation is itself our own suicidal impulse. And this self-destructiveness is not only an indifference to beauty but an intolerance for the bald fact that we are subject to death and dying. We need to rehabilitate what it means to be human. We cannot risk self-hatred.
George B. Handley - Home Waters, pg. xvi
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