So
many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference
between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most
open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a
metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks
and rivers really do have things to say to us.
A
culture that values production over life values the wrong things,
because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or
otherwise.
All
we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants,
ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be
loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we
are. Is that so very difficult?
We must learn how to think like the planet.
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