the only place where there is life and intelligence as we know it. he also said “you can’t help but think that’s all there is and i can’t believe what we’re doing to it. if we could take every world leader up into space and have them look down and point to earth and say ‘that’s all there is and you’re screwing it up,’ maybe it would make a difference.” i thought that was a great way of looking at things. to some extent, the living tree points out how important nature is and how critical the balance of the earth is. by balance, i mean in terms of how 