Temperate forests are found in climates with frequent rain and cold winters; these forests are made up of deciduous trees. Birds, small mammals, and a variety of insects, worms, and spiders live on or above the forest floor. Wolves, deer, and black bears also live in these forests.

What has gone wrong, probably, is that we have failed to see ourselves as a part of a large and indivisible whole. For too long we have based our lives on a primitive feeling that our “God-given” role was to have “dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that move upon the earth.

~Rolf Edberg