with such joy. i mean, and such humor and playfulness. usually when it comes to environmental literature, when it comes to the problems of the world, a grimness to it often. but yours is just so it sounds like you really had fun doing it. well, thank you, and i did. and t one of the things i it s one of the things i must have learned from my father because one of his complaints was he said of environmentalists and feminists, they don t have a sense of humor. and he thought it was just too dismal to have to keep beating people over the head with doom and gloom because that s what environmentalists so often do. he thought having a sense of humor was important. so he worked, he worked it in his speeches and in his books too. so i guess i learned it at his knee. you seem to have a wonderful knack for air rich, these wonderful, memorable statements that he made. and, you know, we ought to ken, we re in berkeley, and this is david brower center, and everybody in berkeley