Sublime

‘It’s like I have a calm place in my mind now,’

the sanctity of manual labour.

attachment to place and attachment to people share an evolutionary pathway and a quality of uniqueness is central to both.

On Not Being Able to Paint.

He regarded the plants in the garden as his ‘gentle guides’ because they showed him a different way of being.

This mixed lifestyle could more properly be called hunting-gathering-cultivating.

We are not primed to dis-attach, we are primed to seek reunion.

Socially and politically, we’re promoting policies, regulations and lifestyles that are making people ill to such a degree that stress, trauma and anxiety are being woven through and through the social fabric. Indeed there is a strong case to say that stress, anxiety and depression are, in fact, the entirely appropriate response to a world in which

the urge to explore that it engenders is intellectual as well as physical.