A Quote by Philip Carr-Gomm

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

Philip Carr-Gomm

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Philip Carr-Gomm
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Born: 1952

Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.

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