Thich Nhat Hanh unexpectedly found himself embracing this whole planet as his home. And is embraced. Connected to the cosmos. The situation of the world can heighten our awareness of nature through another direction. As the nations of the world are woven ever deeper into an interdependent global economy, so can we more keenly realize the interdependence of our ecologies.
Forest fires raging in Indonesia, for example, affect the health of the U.S. dollar.
It is not a question of far or near. Being mindful, we expand the horizon of our family to include the animals, the vegetables, the minerals. Urban as well as in the bush, the voice of Nature is heard in cities too, if you learn to be attuned. Within and without. Poetry and mindfulness inherently oppose pollution, greed, violence to Nature.