When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight (ed. Shambhala Publications, 2010) - ISBN: 9780834821576