Nature

 Nature gave birth to us. We called her mother, goddess, healer, teacher, sustainer and disciplinarian. We lived in nature and were intrigued by her beauty, wealth and power. She was our home, our source of renewal and our guide to living.

Language was the way we understood ourselves in nature—images, metaphors, music. The most profound language for the task of understanding nature became science. We understood how we came from nature. We understood that we were symmetrical like the leaves on a tree. We understood our cycles in nature’s cycles. We understood that we were the most complex of the animals built on evolution’s bony skeleton.

All this knowledge was astounding, but it became the trigger for greed and arrogance. We came to believe we were in charge, living outside of nature. This is where we are today. What we do to nature can be absorbed by nature. But eventually we will be brought down like all tyrants