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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (7101)	3/1/2001 11:52:31 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I wonder if Emily would have liked being quoted in (Ethics and the Environment) as suggesting her quote meant "To live in this sense is to be the kind of person, the kind of being that is startled by the very existence of the world, and who feels diminished by anything that threatens the existence of that world" I actually like her quote, but I think it had more to do with total self interest rather than a plea to save the Amazon rain forest. I don't think Emily meant her quote to be used that way, even though she may have agreed with it later had she been alive. I would say it is not a paraphrase i.e. not a rewording but more a misuse of the meaning.