Most Honored Greening Force: Contemplative Ecology and the Living World
some other-than-normal but beautiful practices for bringing reciprocity to the trees among us and the forests they create.
Lyanda Lynn Haupt • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
This is what’s happening to me. What my mind couldn’t understand. As Tchiht Naht Hanh said: The most important thing we can do; is to hear within ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.
This incredible crisis for conscious life on Planet Earth can be understood as that. We’ve been thinking that we were consumers, we’ve been thinking that we were
By placing ‘greenness’ at the heart of her thinking, Hildegard recognised that people can only thrive when the natural world thrives. She understood that there is an inescapable link between the health of the planet and human physical and spiritual health, which is why she is increasingly regarded as a forerunner of the modern ecological movement.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
What would it be like, I wondered, to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect? Once you start, it’s hard to stop, and you begin to feel yoursel
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The first gift is a philosophy which emphasises the sacredness of all life, and our part in the great web of creation. It cares passionately about the preservation and protection of the environment, and offers a worldview which is ecological, geocentric, pragmatic, idealistic, spiritual and romantic. It does not separate spirit and matter – it offe
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