A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic … - Janine Benyus

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My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

Janine Benyus

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

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Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.

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For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant. . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.

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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

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Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

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