relatedness

 

 

 

 

 

 In reality there is a single integral community of the Earth 

that includes all its component members 

whether human or other than human.

 

 In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, 

its own dignity, its inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. 

Every being declares itself to the entire universe. 

Every being enters into communion with other beings. 

 

This capacity for relatedness, for presence to other beings,

 for spontaneity in action, is a capacity possessed by every mode of being

 throughout the entire universe.

 

 

 

~ Thomas Berry

 photo by Edward Sheriff Curtis