From Mt. Monmon is Crying
Trying to teach children who have not even the memory of nature about how to understand peoples' pain, or about the preciousness of life, may be unimaginably difficult.
People have cut down the forests to make way for cities: this is the "advancement" of civilization. In the world of myths, the Tower of Babylon grows higher and higher toward the sky. But the tower grew not upward, but sideways, expanding further and further to form the world we see now. And just as the Tower of Babylon crumbled and fell, this world of ours has reached a point where it can no longer keep expanding. If we keep cutting the forests as we are doing, the earth's balance will be disturbed; actually, that crucial balance is already being lost. Can you hear the death cry of the earth?
