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- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that…
- The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the…
- Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as…
- Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
- The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
- The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the…
- What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in…
- We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there…
- From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources,…
- We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality…
- We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common…
- The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the…
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