Belonging Together In Nature



When we develop empathy with people and nature, we are able to develop a deeper understanding and experience of how we perceive the world. This deeper ability to perceive wholeness rather than fragmentation is central to the way in which we can develop systemic solutions to the systemic problems facing us in the world today.

https://srerobinson.medium.com/belonging-together-in-nature-deepening-our-sense-of-systems-in-the-world-4395f9e573c2

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