... I believe that if we are to achieve genuinely sustainable development we will first have to rediscover, or re-acknowledge a sense of the sacred in our dealings with the natural world, and with each other. If literally nothing is held sacred anymore - because it is considered synonymous with superstition or in some other way "irrational" - what is there to prevent us treating our entire world as some "great laboratory of life" with potentially disastrous long term consequences?... (H.R.H. Prince Charles of Wales, Reith Lectures, 2000) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture6.stm
...All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Earth, our mother, Who feeds us in her sovereignty and produces Various fruits with colored flowers and herbs.... (Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun) http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Oct1996/feature1.asp
