The Poetics of Ecology
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The Poetics of Ecology
Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about.
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Because we are in relationship with this living, breathing Earth. She is alive. We are alive. Everything in existence on this living, breathing Earth is alive, moving in a circle as a cycle that is in constant variation. This is the story of how it was. And it is not such an ancient story. It wasn’t that long ago that we held inside of us, that... See more
Unfurling the Spiral – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
‘A central question was: what if we were to really honour and acknowledge the fact that we are animals?’ he explains. ‘How would we think, or speak, about even the most ordinary, taken-for-granted aspect of the world, like shadows, or gravity, or houses, or the weather? So much of the language we’ve inherited is laden with otherworldly assumptions.... See more