China, Saint George and Nature
The biggest question of the age is “How did we forget our deep relations with nature?” Climate change, pollution, resource depletion, species loss and even human isolation, depression, lack of identity and dissatisfaction can be explained by our loss of natural relations. In this blog, we can explore an explanation of how we began to lose our sense of natural heritage and contrast it with a belief system for which nature is very much alive and meaningful. We can put together one answer to that question by contrasting aspects of European and Chinese religions. Ancient China had enjoyed a very different relationship with nature from that to be found in Christian Europe. Respective attitudes towards dragons may help to make the distinction clear. In Europe,
