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Looking after the environment, even delighting in it, has been with Christianity since the earliest times. Indeed the environment has often been considered something of a classroom for people to learn about God.

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?” Job 12:7-10

In recent years this appreciation has continued alongside a growing awareness of humanity’s connectedness with the natural world. Last year Pope Benedict used his address for the World Day of Peace to declare:

“… humanity, if it truly desires peace, must be increasingly conscious of the links between natural ecology, or respect for nature, and human ecology. Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa.”

It’s simple. We can’t care for people if we don’t care for the environment.

It’s worrying then that one of the legacies of modern travel is the harm often done to fragile ecosystems, caused by anything from the flight over to the number of people visiting a site.

This section aims to help people travel (and live) like a 21 st C St Francis- someone at harmony with the natural world so that the sun and moon, wind and fire, are like family.

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