Barry Lopez once pointed out that we have developed a relationship to the experienced world in which we would rather think about the fox slinking through the meadow, than be with the fox slinking through the meadow. This preoccupation with our own thinking has the tendency to blind us to the qualitive differences apparent in the world around us. Rudolf Steiner called attention to the fourfold expression of being on earth with his remarks concerning mineral, plant, animal and human. These express themselves in qualities of form, life, sentience and intention. By attuning ourselves to the nature of these different qualities, we can become more aware of the nature of our relatedness to the wholeness of which we are also a part and begin to learn from the world what it needs of us.

John McAlice, Senior Educator and Researcher at the Nature Institute

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