[Homestead] Plant life ethics --for real
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 10 11:58:48 EDT 2008
Deep thinking, Bev :-) I sometimes wonder things like that, too. I've
often noticed that volunteer plants do better than ones I plant and
'tend' (try to bend to my will?). Makes me think. I like the idea of
stewardship or care-taking rather than dominion.
Lynn Wigglesworth
EarthNSky wrote:
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>> I don't know about Mormons, but don't many Christian sects believe that
>> humans have dominion over the earth? That we are in charge and
>> everything else is here for our benefit? To make plants closer to humans
>> probably wouldn't sit well with that philosophy.
>>
>>
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> As I watched a hummingbird the other day, I was thinking about things
> fast and slow...In our speed, in this dimension of space and time,
> hummingbirds move fast and plants move slowly. It could be very
> different in another dimension, and the only way I can think about such
> things is to think about an elapsed time view of how a forest changes,
> for example. If, by building a house in the forest, are we stomping on
> it's toes, making it move further away? Or will it surround us and
> incorporate us like a huge phagocytic cell?
> Dominion?? Well, I think that comes from Genesis where man was created
> last to apparently watch over and tend the Garden of Eden. However, I
> think that is just one way that Judeochristians have misinterpreted what
> was written or intended, because to tend, to care for, to cultivate
> something doesn't mean that you have absolute power over it, in fact,
> many times, it is something greater than yourself.
>
> Bev
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