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Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases! Follow Author. Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. Learn more. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is the management of home.
Societies and our constructs, like economics, must adapt to those fundamentals defined by ecology. We become enslaved by the constant demands of technology created to serve us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct: we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water.
“The future doesn't exist. The only
Hindus list these four and add a fifth element, space. For one thing, to appreciate what it is that keeps you alive. And the more time you spend outside, the more you are able to sense change in that world. If you can smell something, chances are that unless it's flowers or food, it doesn't belong there and is not good for us. But even more profound, we have to get outside and seek nature because we need that connection for our physical and mental health.
So long as we assume that we are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around us, we will not be able to see the dangers we create.