We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us..

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..

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects..

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper product….

In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is no spir….

We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation….

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night..

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth..

We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of….

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it….

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity..

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or ext….

You cannot have well people on a sick planet..

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individua….

In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this comm….

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….

What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To ….

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us ….

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

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis..

What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at….