A Wholistic View Of Nature

It is a simple fact that most thinking people view our current environmental situation as in a crisis. To me, this is the viewpoint of separation. I am aware that my view of Nature is not a popular one — humanity is crisis inclined — but nevertheless, I intend to give a brief outline of a more holistic viewpoint.

First however, let me spend just a few moments with the anxiety-based view of separation. Separation, as the word implies, suggests that all life is separate. This concept may well embrace the web of connection in all life, accepting the chain of dependency that is so brilliantly shown in video documentaries of rainforest ecology, but it nevertheless relates to life through an intellectual framework of isolation. Many of those documentaries show that if one species of animal, bird, insect, or plant in that chain of dependency is threatened to the point of extinction, then the whole chain crumbles, and eventually many species will perish.