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Oil pump at sunrise in Southwest Kansas

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Wind Turbines in Southwest Kansas

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Nature's role in mental health has been an overlooked concept in the field of psychology. Of the over 300 mental diseases listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, only one mentions nature. It's time for an environmentally based definition of mental health.

The Nature of Sanity by Theodore Roszak

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Sunset in Southwest Kansas

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The human psyche is also earth-born, and it contains ecological and historical memories of continuous evolution in God's economy.

Healing and Reconciliation as the Basis for the Sustainability of Life: an Ecological Plea for a "Deep" Healing and Reconciliation by  Lee Hong Jung

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Mule Deer in the new snow

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In 1992, over 1600 senior scientists, including a majority of the living Nobel laureates in the sciences, signed and released a documented entitled Warning to Humanity. In it, they stated powerfully the need for fresh approaches to thinking and living. They declared that 'human beings and the natural world are on a collision course . . . that may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know.'

Duane Elgin with Coleen LeDrew, Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm

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Burrowing Owl-- population declining

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Each of us shares the whole of life's time on Earth. Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins, ashes of expired stars rekindle in our genetic chemistry.

Theodore Roszak, Ecopsychology: Eight Principles

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Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

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The rest of nature does not, however, depend on us; in fact, if human beings were to disappear from the earth tomorrow, all plants and animals would be better off. We are among the neediest, the most vulnerable of all earth's creatures, dependent on nature's gifts every moment of our lives.

Sallie McFague, Life Abundant,  208.

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Peaks above Crestone, Colorado

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One of the finest moments in our new sensitivity to the natural world is our discovery of the earth as a living organism.

Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, 18.

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Wind Turbine in Haskell County, Kansas

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One of my purposes in this life is to introduce others to the natural world around them and help them feel at home there.

Kelvin Heitmann in Magic of the Earth Blog

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Wild Bee Balm, Monardia sp.

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The earth process has been generally ignored by the religious-spiritual currents of the West. Our alienation goes so deep that it is beyond our conscious mode of awareness. While there are tributes to the earth in the scriptures and in Christian liturgy, there is a tendency to see the earth as a seductive reality...

Thomas Berry in The Spirituality of the Earth