Mother Earth

The Earth


- From David Ecke's 
Green Politics Explained.

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.

People would walk around it, marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes on it and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas.

The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and the creatures in the water. The people would declare it sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it  would not be hurt.

The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and the people come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know and wonder how it could be.

People would love it and defend it with their lives, because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feed in diameter...


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