We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman happens to the human. What happens to the outer world happens to the inner world. If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human
is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of the clouds by day
and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

~ Thomas Berry

Storm Clouds and Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission