Deep Ecology is rooted in a perception of reality
that goes beyond the scientific framework
to an intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life,
the interdependence of its multiple manifestations
and its cycles of change and transformation.
When the concept of the human spirit
is understood in this sense,
its mode of consciousness
in which the individual feels connected
to the cosmos as a whole,
it becomes clear that ecological awareness is truly spiritual.
Indeed the idea of the individual being linked to the cosmos
is expressed in the Latin root of the word religion,
religare (to bind strongly),
as well as the Sanskrit yoga,
which means union.
Fritjof Capra, Turning Point, 1982
Photo by Woodland Gnome 2014
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