Christianity has a few bad points. One of the few is its championing people as deserving dominion over Earth and all other life forms. So believed John Muir:
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and the wounds heal ere we are aware.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves. They have precise dogmatic insight into the intentions of the Creator. . . . (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 340.)
For a brief biography of John Muir, click here.
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