I do treat the earth well. In fact just this morning I was ripping brown paper into strips to add in to the compost bin along with garbage and leaves. I have just learned that paper was a valid component of the composting materials. Stands to reason, being made from trees and plants. So back to the earth it goes. And ever since I read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, I have been an avid conservator of water. Sometimes to the ridiculous but that book REALLY made an impact on my thinking about how we live and how we waste the obvious.Then on to the proverb itself, with which I do NOT agree. Children learn from their parents and other adults that they watch and mimic. It is the parents that need to hand down a tradition of conserving our resources. And if it didn't happen in one generation START it now. It is really up to the generation that parents today's children to model conservation. Period. Do it!
The reason I didn't do this yesterday is that Bill and I went into New York City to
see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. A first for me and I really enjoyed the show. And we did a whole lot of walking -- from Grand Central Station to Rockefeller Plaza and back again and definitely not direct routes either way. So I saw lot of gospel writing in the lights and colors and shapes and sounds of the city. And people. Lots and lots of people. So different from the flowers and the clouds and the stars. Every bit as important and colorful, alive and real, being a part of creation each in its own way. 
