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
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
Cartographer
kuochinyun.wordpress.com
Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
Matthew J. Haugenterrain.substack.com
Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People... See more
To have fur, to detect fast movements, to be afraid, to breathe underwater, to see in the dark, to carry precious stones, to be aerial, to make silver trails, to drink from the lake, to care for your offspring, to live in song, to play, to create micro crevices on the ground, to know death, to move with the moon, to cure with herbs, to be... See more
a feeling of connection to things larger than ourselves.
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.