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The great oak trees , tall and stately , bent down their friendly arms as if to embrace us ; the nodding oats sang a song of peace and plenty to the music of the soft wind ; the inquisitive wild flowers , peeping up with round , wide opened eyes from the edge of every foot-path bade us stay . " The unbroken phalanx of institutional authority that young dissidents once confronted has given way to a diffusion of expert opinion , some of which spills over into support for fundamental critiques of the status quo . It has also pushed many large and long-lived ocean wanderers such as albatross and leatherback turtles to the brink of extinction and has led to the destruction of fragile deep sea habitats atop underwater seamounts , banks and ridges . The Council was unlikely to agree in principle to the subordination of sovereignty to individual rights , although in practice it has been and would continue to be prepared to do so in certain circumstances . The Japanese government 's response to this increase of infectious diseases has included the 1998 Hashimoto Initiative for Global Parasite Control ( named after then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ) , and the Okinawa Infectious Disease Initiative , which was announced at the G8 summit in 2000 . Zen masters have long used this koan to bring their disciples to the brink of impasse as a challenge to reach a new level of enlightenment . Conservationists have been concerned that habitat loss , widespread use of rodent-killing chemicals and other factors were driving those birds to the brink of extinction and threatening other types of wildlife on the islands .