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
We have tried to relate to the world around us through only the left side of our brain, and we are clearly failing. If we are to re-establish a viable relationship, we will need to rediscover the wisdom of these other cultures who knew that their relationship to the land and to the natural world required the whole of their being.
Dolores LaChapelle • Ritual is Essential
They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Emergence Magazine
Emergence Magazineemergencemagazine.org
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
Soft Matter, Deep Time — Institute for Postnatural Studies
instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
I think people would be better off if they learned to use the whole earth. All five senses. the world is a very sensual place you know. People joke by saying "touch grass" but its much more than that. There's so much more. It's really there.
Simon Sarrisx.comLanguage 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"
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