# Minerals
A concern with the life of minerals has roots in traditional Buddhist cosmology, but today it is taken as respect for resources upon which life is dependent.

> Every Buddhist practitioner should be a protector of the environment. Minerals have their own lives, too. In Buddhist monasteries, we chant, "Both sentient and non-sentient beings will realize full enlightenment." The [First Precept](/MTNKYPNnRrCCXaUqr1Vh9Q#Reverence-For-Life) is the practice of protecting all lives, including the lives of minerals. (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2007, *For the Future to Be Possible*, p. 10)

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