“We are in a constant process of exchange with the environment around us. The very inside of your physical self is connected second by second through breath to the world around you: we breathe in molecules of air that have passed through plants, trees, animals, other people. When we die our bodies disintegrate, returning to earth. We are not simply in the world but of it. We are the world. Along with water, air, earth, fire, plants, trees, & animals, our bodies are one part of nature’s intricate, delicately-balanced process of give & take. 

While we remain disastrously disconnected from our bodies, it is easy to feel that nature is something outside of us – over there, somewhere else. We feel it is a shame we are destroying it, but not, ultimately, of critical concern. Only once we reconnect to ourselves as physical beings can we truly understand that in destroying nature’s balance, in continually taking too much & returning too little, we destroy ourselves.”