One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.  Much of the damage inflicted on the land is invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. *Aldo Leopold

Our Mother Earth is a part of us and we are a part of her. Our bodies are made up of elements that are found in the Earth.  She provides for us in all that we need to survive.  Our air, our water, our food all either grow on or depend on Mother Earth for it's existance.  In the begining time, there was a balance with the Earth and her inhabitants.  They knew the delicate nature of their existance and respected that balance.  They knew that to survive they had to respect the natural laws and abide by them.  But it was not out of fear, it was out of respect for what we were given. Today it seems many religions try to 'keep parishoners in line' by fear.  This is not so with the Native tribes.  They RESPECT the Creator and His laws.  To live in harmony and balance is ...to live.  When you do not live by these laws...you are going day by day in a slow death.  You are seperated from the Creator and this is the death.  Those that choose to live in balance with Creator and the rest of our Relations are choosing to live a life in close connection with Creator.

The old people came literally to love the soil, and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power.  It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people like to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth...The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing... *Luther Standing Bear *Lakota Sioux

There are many things that we can still do today to help out the Earth. We ourselves cannot cure her. We do not have the knowledge nor the power to 'cure'.  But we can listen to her and help her to heal herself.  She has been gifted by the Creator with an enormous ability to regenerate.  We have polluted her once pure streams, rivers, and oceans.  We have polluted her beautiful forests, mountains, valleys and plains.  We have taken resources from her at an unimaginable rate and mostly without thought for the future generations. We have to all start taking responsibility for our actions.  When you throw 'one little piece of paper' down, that may not seem like such a great tragity.  But multiply that by every human on this planet and it IS a great tragity.  When we do not take the time to recycle, we are wasting resources that will be replaced by others. Yet if we had only chosen to recycle, that would have saved one tree, one plant, one particle of air from being wasted.  We can replant the forests that are dissapearing.  We can adopt an organization that helps the plants and animals.  We can choose to let others know that we are here to look after each other.  The more that hear Mother Earth's cries of pain, the more that will be there to help her on.

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