“We have emerged from nature and we are her children…thus we maintain a kind of typical Love-Hate relationship with her—like a teen-age child we need the security of her warmth, the stability of her as a source and at another moment we want to be free and on our own and left loose of her disciplines. At times we have courted her, at times defied her—mostly taken her for granted as the stable source which would forever nurture us and keep us going. That seems finally not to be inevitable…we have begun (I hope deeply enough) to finally realize that this root source is in fact in jeopardy and that by our actions we are permanently destroying her.” (p. 322)