"It’s a painful, exhausting thing to try to argue logically for the preservation of all the world’s species—like trying to debate spirituality with your accountant. To love life, really, must mean caring not only for the garden plot but also the wilderness beyond the fence, beauty and mystery for their own sake, because of how meager a world would be without them. " -Passage from Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, Infernal Paradise essay.