EARTH, AIR, FIRE AND WATER
FOR EARTH WEEK, A CELEBRATION OF THE WORLD THAT MAKES US
AND SUSTAINS US
Story and Photos
By Fran Palmeri
Contributing Writer
Editor's note: Fran Palmeri has created a photo essay in observance of Earth Week, includ-
ing with it quotes from some of her favorite writers, who span almost 2,000 years.
Man has been called by the ancients a lesser world, and indeed the term is rightly applied,
seeing that if man is compounded of earth, water, air and fire, this body of the earth is
the same.
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
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