Nice thought, but the way things are going it might not come true. I just read that only 4% of the Oregon Northwest Forest remains intact.

@Aristopus
Without us it may recover. We are the parasites of this world.

Thanks, Lady Aly. The book does have some beautiful lines. Here's my favorite paragraph. It's especially poignant if you saw the movie Soylent Green. The only movie to take on the question of overpopulation. Gaia is the Greek mythology Titan of the Earth, wife of Uranus the Sky God.

... We have to switch to biophilia, love of life on Gaia. Beethoven once said that music takes over when words fail. His “Moonlight Sonata” expresses love more deeply than any love poem ever could. To describe the ineffable beauty of Gaia, I refer the reader to Edward G. Robinson's death scene in the suicide center in “Soylent Green”. To the comforting melodies of the Pastoral Symphony, he watched scenes of the pristine unsullied Earth: sheep scampering across florid meadows, trout gliding through rustling rivulets, an eagle perching in its aerie on a lofty mountaintop letting out a shrill “I'm here” caw to its mate. “You see,” said the old man straining his memory with tears in his eyes, ”You... see... I told you... (how beautiful it was!)” Ironically, Robinson died right after making this scene as if it were the culmination of his illustrious career of over a hundred movies.

@Aristopus Soylent Green was on TCM the other night. Made an impression on me & I am childless by choice.

@Countrywoman It's an unrecognized masterpiece. Very underrated. The only movie I know of to deal with humanity's worst problem: overpopulation. Wasn't the scene in the suicide center magnificent? Are you familiar with Beethoven's Sixth, the Pastoral? The juxtaposition of the music with the beautiful scenes of lost nature was heartbreaking, to me anyway.