If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.


Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307807861

Alan Watts Quotes

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the...

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the...

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the...

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the...