Commonplace Post 3

“How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left the busy, materialistic world so full of greed and selfishness and, for a little while, could feel myself, as in the early days, a part of nature." Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

We have built a world where nature is separate from us. In our world, we are so busy and worried about the material things that we lose sight of ourselves and our environment. This is important because if everyone is too busy to worry about the environment, our human impact will deteriorate Earth to a point of being inhabitable. It is only when we leave our selfish and greedy world that we find ourselves and get back in touch with nature.