QA191 QUESTION: [1971] Could you say something about the meaning of the big threats to the Earth that man has perpetrated? Possibly the extinction of the whales isn’t far off.
ANSWER: Yes. Connected – deeply connected. Nothing is by itself.
QUESTION: What does it mean that the deaths of these species seem to be about to occur?
ANSWER: The meaning of this is that man has become so alienated from nature, from his innermost nature, from his innermost being, from his feeling self…[Tape ran out]
