2. Humanity has developed new insights by separating itself from nature's biological clocks. This detailed knowledge has been gained at the price of increasing distance from the rest of creation and the rhythms of intimate temporal participation. The perspective gained has been at the price of each person's loss of contact with the ground of his temporal being. Increased understanding of nature has been accompanied by a self-imposed exile from biological time. People are unable to experience any close connection with rhythms of the planet. Human time is no longer related to that of the tides, to the movement of the sun and moon, or to the changing seasons. If a more empathetic relationship to nature is to be achieved, and life is to be resacralized, then time itself must be resacralized through understanding the natural rhythms of people and accepting the inherent pace, tempo and duration of the natural world. The rhythms by which nature produces and recycles have been so utterly taxed by the dictates of economic efficiency and speed requirements that the planetary ecosystems are no longer capable of renewing resources as fast as they are being depleted, or recycling waste as fast as it is discarded.