But our Earth is not a supply house and a sewer. It is our larger body. We breathe it. We taste it. We are it.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- A Wild Love for the World, On Being interview (2010); Exact wording and attribution checked. Five consecutive complete sentences; ecological metaphor of interdependence, not a literal claim of a single organism.
- A Wild Love for the World, On Being interview (2010)
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