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Category Archives: ecological
Francis Weller on remembering relationship with the earth
“Still, the ground beneath me felt unsteady, as though at any moment it could shake and easily take me to the ground. I stumbled upon what Zen priest and author Susan Murphy calls the koan of the earth. How do … Continue reading
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Joanna Macy on Separation, Connection & the 3 Movements
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded us with a living presence as intimate and pulsing as our own bodies. In that primal … Continue reading
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Helen Macdonald on landscape nostalgia
“I think of all the complicated histories that landscapes have, and how easy it is to wipe them away, put easier, safer histories in their place. They are only safe for us. The fields where I fly Mabel back in … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, awakening, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, diversity, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, human condition, meaning, natural world, perception, political, shadow
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Robert Macfarlane on Mountains
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction – so easy … Continue reading
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Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/black-friday-consumption-killing-planet-growth? Click on the above link to visit the Guardian for this article by George Monbiot, to mark last week’s ‘Black Friday’. ‘When you hear that something makes economic sense, this means it makes the opposite of common sense. Those … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, awakening, boundaries, compulsive behaviour, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, George Monbiot, growth, human condition, mindfulness, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, political, reality, resilience, risk, shadow, violence, vulnerability
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The Moment – Margaret Atwood
‘The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, interconnection & belonging, meaning, natural world, Parker J Palmer, perception, relationship
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Alice Walker’s Beatitudes
“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, … Continue reading
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Alan Watts on our collective fugue state
‘One can only draw the conclusion that the assumption underlying this is that expressions of physical love are far more dangerous than expressions of physical hatred. And it seems to me that a culture that has that sort of … Continue reading
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