…everything is intimately present to everything else in the universe. Nothing is completely itself without everything else. This relatedness is both spatial and temporal. However distant in space or time, the bond of unity is functionally there. The universe is a communion and a community. We ourselves are that communion become conscious of itself.

~ Thomas Berry

Sunrise, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile – photo by Dudarev Mikhail, bigstockphoto.com