Nature and the Human Spirit

What can we learn from our connection to nature and the need for good stewardship? There’s the human spirit that is renewed and fulfilled by wilderness vs our selfish “human nature” that seems to be bent on global destruction with overpopulation, overconsumption of resources, and environmental degradation. We seem locked in a race between self-destruction and self-discovery. Can we save nature? Can nature save us?

Becky Malecki has been a UU member for over 20 years, and a nature lover ever since she can remember. In the 1990’s, while pursuing a Master’s degree in Human Development at Colorado State University, the US Forest Service funded her Master’s degree on “The Spiritual Value of Wilderness”, a look at nature through the lens of spirituality and deep psychology.

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