“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth… As human beings, we are part of the whole stream of life… Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.”
Rachel Carson, marine biologist and conservationist (1907 – 1964)
Chorlton Unitarians 