If you love the green of trees, if you love the smell of rain, if you love being outside, you might be a sandal-wearing hippie. On the other hand, you may have Earth Love.
Love isn’t exclusive to hippies. It isn’t reserved for Christians. Love doesn’t only happen on the day you get married, and it isn’t only felt for other people. Love can be felt, undoubtedly, for pets and other animals, and yes, love can be felt for the planet on which we reside.
The greatest aspect of recognizing when you have a love for Earth is the feeling of responsibility for Earth. We don’t live here for free. Not 100% free. If we enjoy clean water to drink, there are things we absolutely must do to have it. Likewise with good, healthy food. If we wish to survive at all, we have to take action.
Earth Love, of course, goes beyond survival. It helps us care for the animals and plants not directly in our food chain. This kind of love transcends our inner natural-selection self.
When you start feeling a love for the Earth, and the earth which is its constitution, you discover an ability to care even for nearly invisible organisms such as macrobiotic crust. Yes, ALL varieties of macrobiotic crust—the dietary kind, and the living earth kind.
Could you imagine? Caring for lichen? Caring about algae? Caring about the current state of cyanobacteria?
Of course you can, because you have Earth Love.
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