Only fair

"We have to retrieve now and bring back into the light something that gratitude entails: respect for what is there, love for it (for itself and not for what we can gouge out of it). Grateful people make good use of the gifts they have been given, out of respect for the giver. To be ecologically aware we shall need to be thankful for what we so continually and lavishly receive, and feel the need to 'give back' and restore the earth's ravaged bounty. It is an attitude to nature that our most 'primitive' forebears intensely understood. We should also remember that we inherited a rich and beautiful earth, which it is 'only fair' to hand on to our children." (The Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser, 2008; page 361).