The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.