Stephen Fellows- Peace is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh the buddhist monk speaks about peoples interaction with nature. He says "we have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serentiy on the Earth..." he says that people need to "be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth..." He goes on to say that people have caused destruction to the world and it is now time to help the earth. While he is probably speaking about being more enviromentally conscience and not destroying the world the quote also means much more. When people are going out for a walk how many people are aware of where they are walking? Do they think about the people who have walked there before them, or think about the earth that they walk on and what it has provided to them. Early in the semester we talked about being aware of our food and where it came from. This is a similar idea. We should feel the earth as we walk on it and think not only about the things around us but where we walk as well.