Earth is the only living planet we know of. Everything required for us to live is provided by our living planet. There would be no human economy, no human life, no life at all, if it were not for this phenomenon we call Earth. We owe the Earth a great debt for all these gifts, and that debt continues to grow each day we forget to give back.

Earth Week was a recognition of that growing debt, now reduced to only a day, one day to say thank you to our Earth, Mother of all life. It is not enough as we continue to take without giving. If we are to celebrate this life we must learn to give back to the source of it all.

Howard Switzer