Exploring Our Inner Ecology: Understanding and caring for our bodies and the environment as unified systems

This is an essay written by Railyard Apothecary volunteer Jessica Rich, University of Vermont senior, environmental studies major. 

"I don't trust a garden, or a gardener for that matter, that hasn't any weeds..."
 - Christopher Hobbes
 
In Taoist philosophy, nature is viewed as infinitely wise and it is believed that through the observation of nature we can learn to better understand ourselves. Taoism often draws similarities between natural landscapes and the human body and, through this observation of natural ecosystems, highlights connections to help deepen understanding of the inner body [1].

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