EXHIBIT J

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NOTES ON HOW TO START THINKING ABOUT ECOLOGY,

OR, “BE A FRIEND TO A BUG—IT MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE.”

 

  1. Reflecting on Heraclitus:  “How can one write a position paper when the world is in flux?”
  2. Thoughts on ecology depend upon our ideas of man’s relation to nature.  We cannot begin by seeking solutions in more science and technology, but only by seeking a new religion, or rethinking our old one.
  3. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…And God said, ‘Let there be light;’ and there was light.  And God saw that the light was good.”
  4. Comment: “We can no longer hang on to the image of the primal garden, but dream of the new city.” – a campus pastor.
  5. Comment: “The world’s biggest problem—polluted minds.”
  6. Song: “He’s got the whole world in his hands.”
  7. Sign in Isla Vista, UCSB: “Pave the world with trees.”
  8. “Save Mother Earth” – bumper sticker.
  9. “Our Father in heaven / Glorify Your name.” LCUSA
  10. A state governor on the California Redwoods: “Once you’ve seen one tree, you’ve seen them all.”
  11. Spiritual: “O happy day!  O happy day, when Jesus walked…” He didn’t have to watch for broken bottles or rusty cans.
  12. Old saying: “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
  13. Older saying: “Cleanliness is next to impossible.”
  14. “Your Kingdom come!”
  15. Graffito: “Superman hates smog.”
  16. “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven’”
  17. Song: “This land is our land”… made for you and me.
  18. Why not: Pave the world with candy wrappers?  Pace the world with campers and trailers?  Pave the world with people?
  19. John: “God so loved the world, that he…”
  20. “Give us today our daily bread.”
  21. An industrialist: “Pollution is a necessary evil of progress.”
  22. Comment: “Wasn’t snow white?”
  23. Bible: “Who shall live?”
  24. Comment from a bather on University beach: “Seagulls suffocating with oil make such strange sounds – pathetic, hopeless.”
  25. “Forgive us our sins.”
  26. Prayer of the Pharisee: “God, I thank thee that I am not like other men…” Luke 18:9
  27. “Thank God men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” Henry David Thoreau
  28. Hymn: “This is my Father’s world.”
  29. Christ walked on the water; I can walk on Lake Erie!
  30. “Keep us from falling away / And save us from the evil one.”
  31. Bible isogesis: “… he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft…By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur issuing from their mouths.”  Revelation 9:2-18
  32. Question: “How does Mickey Mouse keep his white gloves clean?”
  33. Attention: More than $19 million was spent last year to clean up after litterbugs in the nation’s forests and recreational areas.
  34. Question from Hair: “Can this be the Age of Aquarius?”
  35. A title: “The Last Gasp.”
  36. Comment from another industrialist: “What do we need birds for?”
  37. “We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil…preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and the life we give our fragile craft.”  -- Adlai Stevenson
  38. Genesis 2:15: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.”
  39. The ecology crisis is ours, too.  We’re all part of the global glob.
  40. Does nerve gas make fish nervous?
  41. “Z” means He is alive.
  42. A new definition: ECO means “ecological conscientious objector”.
  43. Smokey the Bear is an ecological martyr.
  44. Ducks are dying to get into oil spills.
  45. And Christ said to Peter, “Feed my sheep.” – but not with nerve gas.
  46. An ecological obscenity: No deposit; no return.
  47. God’s creation – love it or leave it.
  48. “forever and ever. Amen.”