Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
Why it's important
Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
we could seek out ways to coordinate our days with the biological rhythms where we live. Observing isn’t enough, because kinship time is time made together; we must let wild clocks adjust our sense of connection, particularly where their rhythms are becoming disordered. In practical terms, we might discover this sense of time in ritual.
David Farrier • Wild Clocks – David Farrier
Gregory Bateson saw the “false reification of the self” — the idea of a separate self rather than one emerging out of and sustained by relationships — as a root-cause of our “planetary ecological crises”. He argued:
... See moreWe have imagined that we are a unit of survival and we have to see to our own survival, and we imagine that the unit of survival is the
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
My intention is to bring forth information, stories, and connections that solidify our presence in the Story of Interbeing, so that together we form a stable core around which a more beautiful world can coalesce.
Charles Eisenstein • 2023: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible
Ecological Belonging is an emerging idea centered on developing a new narrative around how we connect ourselves to the world.
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our... See more
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our... See more
Ecological Belonging
positive emotional connections to nature increase our affinity toward it which research has shown contributes to willingness to protect the environment, especially in adolescents.
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
And communion—now let’s return to its broader definition—is an act of healing and transformation, a way of being that is needed to reweave the worlds of spirit and matter, to resacralize the living Earth. This is a practice of spiritual ecology. Because to me that is the practice—reweaving the world of spirit and matter through the act of communion... See more
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
If 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
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