On the first day of the wildlife ecology class, the professor always asks her students, “Who loves nature?  Raise your hand.” Predictably, every hand goes up. She continues, “OK.  Now raise your hand if you think Nature loves you.” Not a hand goes up.  “Then, we have a problem.” She concludes. If you don’t think, the love and caring is reciprocal, then what’s the point.  Or if you don’t think Nature is conscious, then you can’t be in relationship.  Life is relationships. If you remain in shame over human’s treatment of nature and feel unworthy to be loved, what hope …