The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdepen…

Alan Watts
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The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends. ✨ Alan Watts (2011). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, p.9, Souvenir Press
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