Getting Relationships Right

Aldo Leopold was a U.S. forester and the author of a well-known early masterpiece on ecology, Sand County Almanac. Here's a sample of what he wrote: We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Here he's writing about our relationship to a part of God's creation--what we see around us all the time--the land. He is writing about a right and healthy relationship and, by implication, the positive benefit to us of this right relationship. He's saying that the creation of our environment is a community to which we belong and in which we're responsible to play our part. When we're in harmony, in a loving relationship with creation, we and creation around View the rest of this article