Theodore Roszak - The Voice of the Earth (1992)

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If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness. But as the prevailing reality principle would have it, nothing could be greater madness than to believe that beast and plant, mountain and river have a "point of view." …minds exist, so we believe, nowhere but in human heads.

Theodore Roszak

The epidemic psychosis of our time is the lie of believing we have no ethical obligation to our planetary home.

Theodore Roszak

The alchemists of the ancient world had a teaching: "As above, so below." Four words that contain an entire cosmology.... a grand cosmic unity, a harmony resounding in the mind of God.

Theodore Roszak

The Earth's cry for rescue from the punishing weight of the industrial system we have created is our own cry for a scale and quality of life that will free each of us to become the complete person that we were meant to be.

Theodore Roszak