Profound words ~ Love & Sorrow for the Natural World We Are Killing
July 5, 2023 Leave a comment
To me, this is profound.
Friday, November 29, 2019
This is a letter of reflection on living with the land that I wrote in November 2019 which was read at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco.
I read it through http://www.grenzbegriff.com/
“This land lived with the Cahto people for I don’t know how many thousands of years. And while this forest is thoroughly beautiful, I imagine its mangled body would be barely recognizable to many of them. Almost every tree has been cut, the land itself cut in all directions with roads, slopes stripped of their soil, no longer able to hold the rains on their way to the sea, eroding the streams into deep canyons. And the trees are dying on their own now, whether from drought or toxicity or loneliness, I don’t know..”
“I often wonder if it’s also too late for the forests as they are now, if the ecological balance is so upset that they will die soon even if the humans stop actively killing them. I don’t know. “
More profound words about the profanity of human apathy towards our natural world. http://www.grenzbegriff.com
….as mass shootings in the United States of Arms, continue with vehemence.
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