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The Earth Charter Story - the development of
the Earth Charter, some important dates and events.
"Our
mentioning of the weather — our perfunctory
observations on what kind of day it is, are perhaps not
idle. Perhaps we have a deep and legitimate need to know in
our entire being what the day is like, to
see
it and
feel
it, to know how the
sky is grey, paler in the south, with patches of blue in
the southwest, with snow on the ground, the thermometer at
18, and cold wind making your ears ache. I have a real need
to know these things because I myself am part of the
weather and part of the climate and part of the place, and
a day in which I have not shared truly in all this is no
day at all. It is certainly part of my life of prayer."
— Thomas Merton in When the Trees
Say Nothing: Writings on Nature edited by Kathleen
Deignan
The
sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the
eagle and the sparrows:
the spectacle of their countless diversities and the
inequalities tells us that no creature is self-sufficient.
Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to
complete each other, in the service of each other.
The beauty of the universe: the order and harmony of the
created world results from the diversity of beings and from
the relationships which exist among them.
Catholic
Catechism