2008?/2009?

"we still talk in terms of conquest. we still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. man's attitude towards nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. but man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.....now i truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and i think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."

Rachel Carson/April 1963