Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
Why it's important
Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
These relationships, when we are able to create them through these practices that we explored together these last few days, they leave an imprint. Because I spoke a lot about imprints yesterday. They leave an imprint that creates a bond. And this bond, over time, leads to kinship. It’s not that first imprint: it might be returning, building that... See more
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
an invitation to step more and more into experience. We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
There are some simple and impactful actions that organizations and individuals alike can take. These actions can be grouped into five types of human-nature connections, originally identified by Interdisciplinary Sustainability Scientist Christopher Ives and colleagues in their 2018 article Reconnecting with Nature for Sustainability. They are:
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Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
Escaping our built environment and spending time in green spaces is a simple and effective way to enhance not only our experiential connections (i.e. physical interactions) with nature but our cognitive connections too. These are the mental processes involved in understanding, appreciating, and interacting with the natural world which can shape our... See more
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour ...
there is a very ancient tradition that understands that when a human heart, and a human being, holds this knowledge of how to be in relationship in a broader capacity—like remembering Earth Time—it exists.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Through thousands of years of anthropocentric conditioning […] we have inherited shallow, fictitious selves, and created a pervasive illusion of separation from nature. […] As long as the environment is ‘out there,’ we may leave it to some special interest group like environmentalists to protect while we look after our ‘selves.’ The matter changes
... See moreIf the future generations don’t care or aren’t interested in the rest of nature, if they aren’t taught about ecology and that we only eat and breathe because of plants, why would they bother with conservation or connection? If they haven’t felt the soothing calm of a walk in the woods or heard the song of a nightingale, what will they miss, through
... See moreLucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
‘nature-deficit disorder’ to refer to the impact of a lack of connection with nature on people’s health. ‘It describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses,’