As human populations soar, seventy percent of the world's bird populations are declining. Species, habitats , topsoil and interpersonal integrity are disappearing at an alarming rate. So are young people with the fortitude of Karen. Runaway stress, greed, violence, crime, AIDS, and substance abuse continue to plague us. So do our runaway costs to contain these problems.
People have little hope for living in an economically and environmentally sound, safe society.
These evils have one thing in common. All of them are unknown in natural areas. Their root is not nature. Their root is our thinking's estrangement from nature's ways, A wise, vital aspect of natural life is missing from our mentality. We have taught ourselves to disconnect from and assault the natural intelligence of life that sustains life in balance, peace and beauty.