The health of an ecosystem relies in part by the diversity of living organisms inhabiting that ecosystem. This living diversity is one that, unknowingly, works and evolves through the millennias as a unified whole. The illusion of boundaries in this natural system do not exist. All events, all life forms, all inanimate landscape features, all otherworldly influences participate in a single, overlapping, diversified, extremely elaborate, divinely coordinated dance that relentlessly marches forward towards greater complexity and greater diversity. This evolutionary march creates an increasingly diversified environment that further improves the qualities of this living world, which in turn promotes a quickening and improvement upon the prior, completing the circle of life and moving one step closer to the Divine.
This is humankind's future. The realization that through our diversified communities, ideologies, and actions, individuals and society as a whole will be transformed, an evolutionary leap forward towards a just, peaceful, sustainable world that embraces and stewards the wonderful biological diversity we inhabit this planet with. We will be wise to listen to our Earth and how she speaks. A unity of humanity culminating in a cooperative relationship with Mother Earth. This relationship will not only be sustainable, but will be the quickening of our evolution and the Earth's evolution as well. As Pope Benedict XVI said recently in Italy 2007, "We all see that today man can destroy the foundation of his existence, his Earth... Our Earth is talking to us and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive."
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