"You can't do ecology without an aesthetic, without a sense of beauty. It's beauty, and being in love with forests, and with healthy soil, and healthy food, and healthy bodies that's going to give us the imagination and the courage to do something about it. When you're in love, imagination works overtime. People who are in love find ways to find each other. That's another lesson from the universe. We have to fall in love. We have to de-anthropocentrize this thing about falling in love, which our culture reduces to soap operas and finding a mate. We have to realize you fall in love with CREATION. Once we get that energy going, we'll have the political imagination and the moral imagination to change our ways."
Matthew Fox
Photos: Globeflowers growing by a stream, Alpine Bog Laurel blooming on Lion Lake #1, and Glacier Lilies with Copeland Mountain in the background; Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, June 29, 2015
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