A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.