THE UNIVERSE IS primarily a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. Those of us who live in the industrial world have become locked into ourselves, into the human process. We cannot relate to the outer world in any effective manner. We cannot get out, and the outer world cannot penetrate the human. We have lost our reverence, our sense of mystery, our sense of the sacred. We do not hear the voices of the surrounding world, the voices of the entire range of natural phenomena. The forests seem to be there primarily for exploitation. Any depth of human presence to the forests is relegated ...
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