We invite you . . . to cast aside your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things . . . We see the minerals, the plants, and the animals as servants of man. We have forgotten that they can be teachers as well, that they can open us to ideas and emotions that have been locked from the human heart for too long a time.

Sun Bear , Heart in the Wild by Susan Chernak McElroy