"I care. I think what you're doing here is really great and I think you should stay here until you've made you're point."

He blurted it all out, real fast like that, one single long sentence. Then he felt ashamed of himself.

"You do?"

"Yes. This is really important. People think nothing of destroying Mother Nature to put in shopping malls and parking lots. . ."

An old Joni Mitchell refrain went through his head and stopped him before he gave himself away.