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“We are in trouble because we do not have a good story,” Catholic priest and evolutionary theologian Thomas Berry often said. “We are between stories. The old story is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned ‘the new story.’ We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe.”
― Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

“Morning is glad on the hills. The sky sings in blue tones. Little blue fluers are early blooming now. I do so like blue. It is glad everywhere. . . . The earth sings in green . . . I did stop by some grand fir trees to pray. When one does look looks up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.”
― Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

“Hope is not optimism. Optimism assumes the best, and assumes its inevitability, which leads to passivity, as do the pessimism and cynicism that assume the worst. Hope, like love, means taking risks and being vulnerable to the effects of loss. It means recognizing the uncertainty of the future and making a commitment to try to participate in shaping”
― Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

“The Great Work is spiritual at the core. Gus Speth, an environmental attorney, ecologist, and climate advocate, has summarized the problem brilliantly: “I used to think that top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. . . . But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.”
― Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred