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When you met the monster anoint its feet
This Catholic document argues that caring for the Earth is a moral and spiritual responsibility.
Ladato Si
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember Language comes from this. Remember the dance language is, that life is.Remember.
Remember
This essay uses berries as a model for an economy based on sharing rather than profit.
The Service Berry
King of security and looking at the sky 
Paul Kingsnorth
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On the road with Thomas Merton
This declaration frames climate change as a violation of humanity’s duty to God as stewards of the Earth.
the islamic declaration on climate change
DAILY DOUBLE!!! “The destruction of the human environment is extremely serious, not only because God has entrusted the world to us men and women, but because human life is itself a gift which must be defended from various forms of debasement.”
Answer: Ladato Si
This text uses the “monster” as a metaphor for greed, overconsumption, and imbalance in human relationships with nature.
When you meet the monster anoint its feet
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The daydreams of masanobu Fukukoa
This monk’s life and travels highlight contemplation, solitude, and spiritual engagement with the modern world.
Thomas Merton
“The future is necessarily monstrous: the figure of the future, that which can only be surprising, that for which we are not prepared, you see, is heralded by species of monsters.”
When you meet the monster anoint its feet.
This essay frames wind or storm imagery as a metaphor for spiritual disruption and ecological crisis.
A storm blown from Paradise
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Ladato Si
This text connects spirituality to the natural world by suggesting that humans are part of a sacred, interconnected system.
the religious worldview in Ladato Si
“Because I’m a botanist, my fluency in the lexicon of berries may not easily extend to economics, so I wanted to revisit the conventional meaning of economics to compare it with my understanding of the gift economy of nature”.
The ServiceBerry
DAILY DOUBLE!! This poem uses memory as a metaphor for resistance against forgetting identity, history, and loss.
Remember
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The serviceberry
At the end of this essay writes poems by this religion
What is catholic pessimism
“Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.”
On the Road with Thomas Merton
In this essay, the “gift economy” is symbolized by plants and animals exchanging resources instead of hoarding them.
What is the metaphor of ecological reciprocity in The Serviceberry?
Masanobu Fukuoka