In clinical language we are into a deep cultural pathology.

We need not a human answer to an earth problem, but an earth answer to an earth problem. The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only LISTEN to what the earth is telling us.

The natural world itself is our primary language as it is our primary scripture, our primary awakening to the mysteries of existence. We might well put all our written scriptures on the shelf for twenty years* until we learn what we are being told by unmediated experience of the world about us.

—Thomas Berry (Priest, Eco-theologian, “Earth scholar”, 1914 – 2009)

*If the study of scriptures of whatever tradition leads us to “unmediated experience of the world about us,” experience that comes from a still mind and clear seeing, then I am surely in favor of it.