View of a fountain, Vatican Gardens, photo by Nik Barlo jr © Musei Vaticani

“The earth herself, burdened and laid waste,
is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she ‘groans in travail’.
We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth;
our very bodies are made up of her elements,
we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.”

(Pope Francis – Laudato si’)

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