"If you're in love with the world, fall in love with trying to save it."

Sure, not groundbreaking by any means, but this particular line is the article tag line on a brilliantly-written piece by Derrick Jensen in the latest Orion Magazine. Plus it has love in it, and we felt compelled to buy into the Valentine's Day theme for this week's Friday Quote. But back to Jensen's piece. It's titled "50 Ways to Get Off" and he attempts to answer the question, "ok, so I care about the planet, but what should I do to save it?" But this is Jensen we're talking about, writer of two of our all-time favorite pieces of environmental / sustainability journalism: "Beyond Hope" and "Forget Shorter Showers" – hopefully those titles and the theme don't thow you off – so his answers are not lightbulb-changing suggestions, but real, powerful stuff: "I want you to make the time to find what or whom you love—whether it’s salmon, sturgeon, a patch of forest, survivors of domestic violence, your own indigenous tradition, migratory songbirds, coral reefs, or Appalachian mountaintops—and I want you to dig in and defend your beloved with your life, and, if necessary, with your death. I want for your actions to positively contribute to the health and defense of the planet. I want for you to figure out how to make it so the world—the real, physical world—is a better place because you were born, and because you lived here."

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