There is a kind of respect and duty in man as a genus which links us not merely to the beasts, which have life and feelings, but even to trees and plants. We owe justice to men; and to other creatures that are able to receive them we owe justice and kindness. Between them and us there is some sort of intercourse and a degree of mutual obligation.
Today’s Green Thought comes from Michel de Montaigne 1533 –1592, ‘Father of the Essay’. His massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.
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