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If … the earth, and in a wider sense the whole world round about us, is alive, then we are now already participants of its life without being resolved into it or being lost in it.
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The quote considers the possibility that Earth, and the wider world around us, is alive. If so, people already share in that life simply by existing within it. Yet participation does not mean losing individual identity: we remain distinct while belonging to the living world around us.
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