Connecting with Nature

A Conversation with Thomas Berry by Nicholas Tuff

I love this quote from Thomas Berry:

Why do you want the children to walk in the woods? Why do you want them to experience the rain and the wind and the dawn and the sunset and the whole amazing flurry of existence. The reason is to awaken in the children a sense of who they are and the context in which their life unfolds. In this way, the integral relatedness of the Universe will be preserved.

Not only children but everyone should go out, plant, dig, make mud-pies, listen to the birds, look up at the sky, smell the soil...

Take time to understand and feel our connection with Mother Earth. When we all understand we are all part of nature, environmentally sound practices and lives will come to us naturally.