Challenges Each of us sincerely desires to live responsibly in a healthy, safe social and natural environment. But, we still learn how to think today as Karen was taught to think 26 years ago. For example, today, as then, we pulverize the area around our home and school into a lawn. We do this, even though we know that lawns demand polluting chemicals and that they replace vital wildlife habitat. But, our ingrained, nature-separated language story floods our conscious thinking.
Lawns are our culture and history.
Under this nature disconnecting barrage of stories, and without being nurtured, our natural love for natural areas dissolves. Lawns, and many of our other questionable choices, flourish because our nature disconnected stories, not the wisdoms of our inner nature, carve our destiny. I know and enjoy the people that made the above statements about lawns. They enjoy the natural world through correct symbols and language, not by sensitively thinking with their heart. They suffer from our runaway problems because the natural integrity of their lives and sensitivities has been as disintegrated as the natural areas that once thrived where their lawns now exist.