The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.
Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.