What follows are snippets, quotes, thoughts and realisations about the deep inner connection between humans and nature. For now, its a stream of consciousness page and we invite you to explore these thoughts with us, with no other aim than to observe and revel in the beauty of this connection.

16 April 2009

If the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature, nature responds by providing everything.

... Masanobu Fukuoka

For so long we have been taught to rely on our own efforts and will to ensure our security and future. How do we now turn back to 'trusting' that nature will provide? How do we learn a new way of being - one that is completely in the 'moment', that surrenders to the energy and intelligence of Nature and knows that one will be taken care of?

8 April 2009

I wish it to be wholly understood what I have become to Nature and what Nature has become to me. If you wish to understand me only passably, you must know how Nature found me and I found Nature during our first encounter; then you will have the history and the exposition of my perceptions.

..............Goethe

What inspires people to conserve? Knowledge of the destruction we are now causing to the environment may inform people but does not necessarily inspire them. Often it produces guilt and a sense of doom. It is when one's heart is touched by Nature, when She becomes an inseperable companion in this journey of life, when one can offer and recieve love from Her that one is inspired to protect her beauty.

1 Dec 2008

Nature is not easily outdone.
.........Joseph Chilton Pearce in the Magical Child Matures

For some reason, this simple statement gives me tremendous courage. The idea that Nature is a victim and requires 'saving' has been refuted by many, yet beyond the obvious force and resilience of Nature, what resonates for me is the idea that She is conscious. And that while we may not see the intelligence behind the senseless destruction, in the larger scheme of things there are indeed cycles of creation and destruction in Nature. The need for us to live sustainable lives is not then to sustain the outer natural environment so much as it is to sustain and ensure the survival of our own species on this planet.