Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.*
Jean Houston
We’re surrounded by problems. Problems create the arc of our days, and so solving them creates value for ourselves and for others.**
Seth Godin
Earth is smarter than us–
When we think of ourselves as
some super-species apart.
Though when we understand ourselves
to be Earth, we get to
be smart, too.
The journey into the heart of the natural world is a journey into reverence. It is a journey into seeing the I-am-ness of every life-form and every human being, and never reducing the other to a category of being, whether that be of gender or religion, of race or nationality. I am who I am. And I will be who be who I will be.^
*Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us;
**Seth Godin’s blog: The Knot;
^Philip Newell’s Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul.
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