“The first thing that comes to my heart,” she told me, “is that we have a commitment to Earth. It’s not just a commitment, though—it’s a mad love affair with this Earth. And we have a capacity and a role in helping Her and all the rest of the life to thrive. It’s not part of the modern world paradigm. Everything is so individualistic, individual achievement, and even anthropocentric, right? Totally self-oriented. When you are part of that larger community, Earth, and you are accountable to this mad romance with birds and fish and trees and mountains and sky, you have more to compel you, to
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