Quotable Creation Care: Thomas Merton Explains Our Destruction

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Someone will say: "You worry about birds. Why not worry about people?" I worry about both birds and people. We are in the world and part of it, and we are destroying everything because we are destroying ourselves spiritually, morally, and in every way. It is all part of the same sickness, it all hangs together.

- Thomas Merton

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Ben DeVries November 16, 2010 at 2:32 pm

A wonderful quote, thank you for sharing – Ben

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