When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world--which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. (p. 125, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa, ed. by Carolyn Rose Gimian, Shambhala Publications, c1984)
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Anne, I grew up in Harlan County at the foot of Black Mountain and the practice of mountaintop removal offends and sickens me to my core.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cletis. Mountaintop removal seems to me to be a kind of rape of both the land and people.
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