Susan Griffin. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. NY: Harper and Row 1978



from pg. 185 -186--

We say you cannot divert the river from the riverbed. We say that everything is moving, and we are a part of this motion. That the soil is moving. That the water is moving...We say everything comes back. And you cannot divert the river from the riverbed. We say every act has its consequences. That this place has been shaped by the river, and that the shape of this place tells the river where to go...We say every act comes back on itself. There are consequences. You cannot cut the trees from the mountainside without a flood.