Quote

“What do we think about when we say "the earth" nowadays? Many people think of the earth as a horn of plenty, a resource to be plundered by all who "own" a piece of the earth. Most of us, it seems, think that the earth belongs to us, humans.
Does anyone ever wonder why we think that? To indigenous peoples everywhere the earth was Mother Earth, the source of our being. We belong to the earth, we come from the earth and to the earth we return. All our molecules are earth molecules, the same molecules that make plants and animals and rocks and water and air. We are completely, utterly, part of all that is on this planet. We are of the planet.” (“The Rights of the Earth”)

This was a quote I found online that I really enjoyed and thought portrayed the message of this project. We are part of this planet, we make of the ecosystems, yet we consider ourselves owners of the world. We are not above any one creature on the planet, we are merely among them. "We come from the earth..." the earth doesn't come from us. We depend on this planet, but the Earth doesn't need us. We are only part of the Earth, we have not created it, we do not own this planet.