It’s time to take another look at ourselves – to re-enliven our sense of what it is to be human, to breathe new life into ancient intuitions of who we are, and to learn again to celebrate, as we once did, our instinctive affinity with the Earth community in which we’re rooted.
We are all called now to rediscover what it means to be human beings in a wildly diverse world of feathered, furred and scaled fellow creatures; flowers and forests; mountains, rivers and oceans; wind, rain and snow; sun and moon.
In Western culture, we’ve enclosed ourselves within continuously mended fences of excessive ...
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