Voice of the Earth

      The Earth is trying to tell us something...droughts, global warming, shrinking polar ice, more frequent and powerful storms, a rapidly increasing rate of species extinction.  Not with words, but with pictures and events...these are the ways our planet tries to communicate that things are changing, and not necessarily for the better.  Why aren't we listening?

     In the early days of mankind, we lived in harmony with nature.  We were born out of it and sustained by it.  The relationship was intimate and unquestionable.

     As time went on, we continued to rely on the earth for sustenance, but we organized into villages and societies and eventually into nations.  We progressed, people's duties became more specialized and our modern societies became more industrialized. Only those involved in agricultural endeavors continued their close association with Mother Nature.  The rest of us became more and more distant from her.

     Humanity as a whole began to see itself as separate from nature, and perhaps more disturbingly, as superior.  Our focus became less about honoring and respecting the earth and more about subduing it.  (Read more...)