relationship with nature
how humanity interacts with nature in both positive and negative ways, more philosophical than the 'climate/sustainability' tag
Keely Adler and
relationship with nature
There is a stone on top of a stone. There is a stone with a hole in the center, and a drop falling and piercing, slowly, and crossing it from side to side. Algae, fungus, yeast. Rust and lichen. On the rock, hairy and ceramic, the liquid mixes before becoming hard. The drop keeps falling and repeats the fall. The drop falls. One after another... See more
people need many points of contact with the natural world to be happy and AC loses a few of them
which might be OK but all the others have been lost too. In the dead of summer and winter people wear flip flops and travel in space bubble cars to space bubble buildings.
Simon Sarrisx.comthread
Language can be a gift, and language can be a tool of colonialism.... See more
The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land
Olivia Vagelos • We Are Not the Only "Who"
Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.
Dolores LaChapelle • Ritual is Essential
