The human is the being in whom the earth has become spiritually aware,
has awakened into consciousness,
has become self-aware and self-reflecting.
In the human, the earth begins to reflect on itself.
In our deepest definition and deepest subjectivity,
we humans are the earth. Conscious.
You and I are the beings in whom the earth
thinks… knows… comprehends… analyzes…
rationalizes… judges… remembers…
chooses…acts…decides.

– Miriam Therese MacGillis in “The Fate of the Earth”