Guess what? This hotshot's book is a pedantic snoozer! I would rather read our investor pitch any day of the week than suffer through even one of his chapters. Anyway, determined to salvage something from the time invested reading his book, we pulled out the highlighter...
Early on (thankfully!) we came across this excerpt, where the CEO quotes a fellow named Thomas Berry. Now, excuse us, we've never heard of Thomas Berry, but we really like the sound of what he's written. Here's a taste:
"We cannot have well humans on a sick planet. We cannot have a viable human economy by devastating the Earth's economy. We cannot survive if the conditions of life itself are not protected. Not only our physical being, but our souls, our minds, imagination, and emotions depend on our immediate experience of the natural world. There is in the industrial process no poetry, no elevation or fulfillment of mind or emotions comparable to that experienced in the magnificence of the sea, the mountains, the sky, the stars at night, the flowers blooming in the meadows, the flights and song of the birds. As the natural world diminishes in its splendor, so human life diminishes in its fulfillment of both the physical and the spiritual aspects of our being. Not only is it the case with humans, but with every mode of being. The wellbeing of each member of the earth community is dependent on the wellbeing of the earth itself."That's a photo of Thomas Berry, above. He looks and sounds like a good man, doesn't he? You can see it in the eyes!
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