But most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty as long as they may live, for a stated sum – many for a glass of rum. Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! We are safe on that side for the present. It is for the very reason that some do not care for those things that we need to continue to protect all from the vandalism of a few.

-Journal entry, 1861 Henri David Thoureau