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"The nature-connected quotes show that people and their mentality are part of Earth and nature" says Dr. Mike Cohen, director of Project NatureConnect. When nature and its renewing powers are absent in the environment of the human mind, even our best thinking leads us to behave in ways that abuse Earth's natural systems in our body and psyche as well as in the environment. With nature's absence, we lose its ability to help our thinking produce the social and environmental balance we seek, a balance common to healthy natural systems and nature-connected people.
"Over 99% of our thinking is disconnected from and out of tune with nature and its regenerative ways," states the proclamation. That, it says, is the point source of personal dysfunctions such as stress, depression and cancer as well environmental dysfunctions such as global warming, oceanic dead zones and war.
The proclamation urges the counseling, education and environmental communities to become more effective by using readily available sensory tools that emotionally reattach our mentality to nature for we do not fight for what we don't love .
To honor Earth Day 2004, Project NatureConnect has contributed nature-reconnecting tools to leaders and students. Their use enables people to think using the same organic communication process that we share, as part of nature, with the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. As with them, without creating pollution or garbage, the process helps our thinking sustain optimums of life, diversity and peace in natural systems around and within us.