Sublime

the natural world because, like every other living being, we are quite literally expressions of the earth. But in the grandness of what we as a species have created and called civilization, we have come to think of ourselves as conquerors of the wild.

We exist, not as wholly singular, autonomous beings, nor completely merged, but in a fluctuating space in between. This idea was expressed beautifully in Desmond Tutu’s explanation of the South African concept of Ubuntu. He said, “It is to say, my humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. We belong in a bundle of life. We say a per

At the end of the day, each of us is a single human being, no matter how big our businesses might be.

many scientists consider us to be symbiotic organisms, beings defined by a particular set of relationships: there is the host (us), all the other organisms that live upon and within us, and the ecological landscapes in which we live.15 “Mi anokhi?” Who are we? Indeed. We are the ongoing aliveness of the world. We are the meeting point of trillions

humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans.

I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me.