Nature in Mind

 


TRYING AND SEARCHING AND WANTING

                                                        

I am sitting on my balcony. It is spring and there is a little bit of heat in the sun. The balcony looks out over a road. The road is usually busy… an endless stream of trucks and cars but right now there is no traffic. Everyone is self-isolating. The machine has stopped. It feels strange. Peaceful. I can hear different birds… the wren, the blackbird, the robin. A blue tit is flitting from one branch to the next. Life goes on. I could sit here all day.

                                                                CONNECTION TO CARE

                                         

The absence of a deep emotional connection between humans and the natural world is at the root of the environmental crisis.
                                                           
                                                                 NATURE IS A TEACHER 
                                                            
 

“Nature is our greatest teacher, this teacher has given us everything in plenty and has now understood that human beings do not understand its value. Nature has its own ways to teach people and make them aware of its importance. Nature is trying to tell us that we have to use its resources properly.

THE SOIL IN WHICH WE GROW

 

In order for any plant to grow and flourish to its full potential, it needs the right conditions.

The soil is all important. Everything grows in the soil. If the soil is good and you have the right amount of sunshine and water everything takes care of itself. Nature follows its own course. We don’t need to interfere. The tiny acorn grows into the majestic Oak tree.

                                                   HEART OF THE WORLD

                             

The beauty of the wind is its dynamism. It is not constant, nor predictable. One minute it lifts the place; the next there is a lull of still abiding peace. On gentle days it is god’s whisper; In more rambunctious form it is a monster’s roar, a voice that erupts with a wild and angry energy.

SEAS AND THE SKIES

 

In a very real sense, mountains and valleys, the seas and the skies, the sun and the earth, the trees and the flowers constitute our home, our natural habitat.
This connection with the land combined with the kinship we would have felt with other living things that shared the land as their home has hardwired in us a strong sense of the natural world as ‘home’, and the importance of connection with all of life as being essential to our well-being.











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