When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise, that human beings are all mutual friends in the process of birth, old age, suffering, and death, then we can build a noble, even a heavenly environment. If our lives are not based on this truth then we'll all perish. Our species has never been separate, just (as Thomas Berry puts it) "autistic".

— Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis by David Loye (Page 115)