“Mystical experience of nature
can be of particular relevance
to our troubled age,
bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions
the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must,
in turn, sustain nature.
Rationality alone, however,
cannot be our guide in the task
of restoring our environment.
A spiritual connection to nature
must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.”
-Carl von Essen