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We are all indigenous

"All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything else."

These words, the first of the Twelve Teachings of the Sacred Tree, quoted by Rupert Ross in his extraordinary book, "Returning to the Teachings," begin to open the biggest truth of all about the burning rainforests of Planet Earth.

The "indigenous rights" being violated

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