" Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature. "
- Alan Watts
" So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us. "
- Derrick Jensen, What We Leave Behind (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: socialuprooting)
" The earth is what we all have in common. "
- Wendell Berry, Author, farmer & cultural critic (via thegreenliferi)
Dalai Lama urges Obama not to approve Keystone pipeline
I don’t think anyone saw this one coming……but His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the latest high profile critic of the Keystone Pipeline.
He is one of a group of nine Nobel Peace Laureates (including Archbishop Desmond Tutu) who have written a letter to President Obama, urging him to honour the environmental pledges he made back in 2008 and reject the Keystone extension.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
