Here I would reiterate that “God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement”.[
Memorare cupimus “tam arte Deum circumiacienti mundo nos sociare, ut solum, in solitudinem conversum, morbus unicuique habeatur, atque quampiam amissam speciem veluti quandam amputationem conqueri possimus”.[vatican.va vatican.va