You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.