For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.

The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.