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
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
― Hubert Reeves
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.