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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Everything
Must
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Renew
Life
Sacred
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Differences
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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We live in a description of reality.
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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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