The community of creation sees other creatures as fellow creatures in the journey. Human beings are not above other creatures, but alongside other creatures, not separate from other creatures, but fellow creatures, not outside nature, but inside nature.

More specifically, there is a need to reimagine the relationship of humans with nature, no longer as masters but as companions, no longer as exploiters but as carers, no longer as tourists passing through but as residents with shared responsibilities.

Excerpted from 'Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si’ by Dermot A. Lane

(pp. 125, 133)