The Fifth Sacred Thing
-
- Taschenbuch ausgewählt
- eBook
-
Sprache:Englisch
14,99 €
UVP
19,50 €
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
15862
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.12.1994
Verlag
Random House LLC USSeitenzahl
496
Maße (L/B/H)
15,5/23,4/3,5 cm
Gewicht
548 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-553-37380-6
Declaration of the Four Sacred Things
The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.
To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.
Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing
This is wisdom wrapped in drama. Tom Hayden, California state senator
Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel. Locus
Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet. Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess
This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood. Library Journal
Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback
Wir nutzen Ihr Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte haben Sie Verständnis, dass wir Ihnen keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls Sie Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchten, können Sie sich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice