The major difference between humans and animals is that the animal landscape does not turn animals into addicts. It is an aberration when an animal destroys its landscape – typical mainly of invasive species. But people will destroy an entire tree for its wood, or an entire elephant for itsContinue Reading
A typical definition of an ecosystem is “a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” Such definitions are focused upon ecosystems in all their material interconnectedness: this eats that, and its excrement feeds them, and so these grow while those decay, and so on in a myriad ofContinue Reading
The Chinese philosopher, Chuangtse, hearkens us back to that time, just after we slipped the bonds of the natural landscape, but before the human landscape enslaved us. “After the Tao (the Way) was lost, then arose the landmarks and pathways of humanity, justice, character, and manners.” Jesus, too, expected usContinue Reading