There was one tree there that I used to make a pilgrimage to every spring that lay in a bed of ferns on the forest floor. I've watched it decomposing over the last twenty years. But for me there is also Marian Stoddard. She worked to enact the Massachusetts Clean Water Act, the first Clean Water Act in the country. I'd say television.
Materialism is at the root of most environmental destruction.
Think about it. It's a toss up between water and global warming. As global population expands and we drain the aquifers, clean drinking water will be a major problem. With global warming and global climate change there are going to be so many consequences that it's hard for us to imagine them all right now. And, my biologist friends very strongly believe that it's already started, because of the migrations of the animals northward.