Tell me the story of the river and the valley and the streams and woodlands and wetlands, of shellfish and finfish.  A story of where we are and how we got here and the characters and roles that we play.  Tell me a story, a story that will be my story as well as the story of everyone and everything about me, the story that brings us together in a valley community, a story that brings together the human community with every living being in the valley, a story that brings us together under the arc of the great blue sky in the day and the starry heavens at night...
 

- Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
  Quoted in The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki