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Respecting Nature’s Wildness: Active Hope Part 1

Sep 29, 2024

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Stewardship, Wellness

Active hope, Chris Johnstone, Climate change, Debbie Downer, frog-in-the-kettle, Henry David Thoreau, Hurricane Helene, Joanna Macy, nature, philosophy, thoreau, Vaclav Havel

Around 170 years ago, our Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor Henry David Thoreau spoke about wildness. “Our village life would stagnate,” he said, “if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness […] We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic…