Re: Learning the earth system LO3785

John Woods (jwoods@execpc.com)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 06:38:13 -0600 (CST)

Replying to LO3778 --

>Thank you, Michael Cohen for the posting of your interview re: your new
>book. It made me think of the quote on a tee-shirt from the nature store.
>"Nature holds the answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask." I
>know that I find many answers in natural happenings that I participate in
>or observe. I think you are right on target with nature-connectedness as
>a vehicle to healing many of the ills that trouble us.

>Thanks for the inspiration.

>Willard Jule
>75272.3452@compuserve.com

I have always been bothered when I hear people say that human beings
should not tamper with nature. Why? Human beings are a part of nature.
We can't not tamper with nature. Nature tampers with itself and we are
just part of that happening. I suppose the issue is the intelligence with
which we participate in this and our awareness that it's going on..
Whenever we think/act as if we are somehow separate from the nature that
created us, we will inevitably create problems for ourselves--that is a
false assumption. I like to say that "human nature is just the human form
of nature."

And hello Willard.

-- 
John Woods
jwoods@execpc.com