INTERDEPENDENCE
We cannot have well humans on a sick planet.
We cannot have a viable human economy by devastating the earth’s economy.
We cannot survive if the conditions of life itself are not protected.
Not only our physical being, but our souls, our minds, imagination and emotions depend on our immediate experience of the natural world.
There is in the industrial process no poetry, no elevation or fulfilment of mind or emotion comparable to that experience of the magnificence of the sea, the mountains, the sky, the stars at night, the flowers blooming in the meadows, the flight and song of the birds.
As the natural world diminishes in its splendour, so human life diminishes in its fulfilment of both the physical and the spiritual aspects of our being.
Not only is it the case with humans, but with every mode of being.
The wellbeing of each member of the earth community is dependent on the wellbeing of the earth itself.
—Thomas Berry
We cannot have well humans on a sick planet.
We cannot have a viable human economy by devastating the earth’s economy.
We cannot survive if the conditions of life itself are not protected.
Not only our physical being, but our souls, our minds, imagination and emotions depend on our immediate experience of the natural world.
There is in the industrial process no poetry, no elevation or fulfilment of mind or emotion comparable to that experience of the magnificence of the sea, the mountains, the sky, the stars at night, the flowers blooming in the meadows, the flight and song of the birds.
As the natural world diminishes in its splendour, so human life diminishes in its fulfilment of both the physical and the spiritual aspects of our being.
Not only is it the case with humans, but with every mode of being.
The wellbeing of each member of the earth community is dependent on the wellbeing of the earth itself.
—Thomas Berry
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