Environmental Issues and the Importance of Connecting With...

Biology and Connecting With Nature Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table. - D.H. Lawrence Beyond any doubt, studies now confirm that due to the stress that is flowing out of our disconnected bleeding roots, complex personal, environmental and social problems are created. As humans we have been inclined to look outside of ourselves -- at the polluted lakes and brown clouds†¦show more content†¦The fundamental problem, as David Wann writes in his book Bio-Logic, is that our brains-- and technologies-- are still evolving. Although we are part of nature, humans have decided to go their own way, separated from the realities learned in Biology. Recently both the physics and chemistry industry formed an alliance and over-looked the still-evolving field of biology. The result of the coalition was runaway chemicals, disappearing species, and an afflicted Human population. It is discouraging to see the violence and the hatred that is growing in the industrial society. The destruction of the forests, wildlife, and oceans, results in using the remains of the land for a varie ty of ends that are not at all related to the spirit of those places. The spirit of Nature that one grows around. Our lives, along with the lives of the global community, are at risk. We are wounding the earth and in return we are suffering with it. 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