Our quest to find purpose requires conscious alignment with our evolving, living Earth. When we allow Earth’s purpose to guide us, we know how to act in harmony with Life, and hope can blossom anew.

The only way contemporary science seems able to fathom some species' uncanny navigational powers is by likening the abilities of these animals to technologies of our own, human invention.

"The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. ...They are part of the Cura Da Terra, "Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon."

We cannot return to the innocence of an earlier time, but this bond between humanity and creation remains, hidden beneath all the debris of our culture.

One of Thomas Berry’s major contributions to what he called the Great Work was his articulation of the principles and philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence.