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Posted on May 4, 2015 12:35 pm by Emma

‘The environmental crisis has deep attitudinal roots.  To restore our environment we need to heal our relationship with it, and that means healing the split in the psyche that cuts us off from the material world.  It means revisioning the relation of mind and matter.  The bulldozing of nature and the abuse of our own bodies reveal the depth of this separation, the fear it engenders, and the need to control… Matter itself, if we attend to it mindfully and gracefully, can help liberate us from delusion; for it is mind, not matter, that is in bondage.’  Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self




Juliette of the Herbs

Posted on April 14, 2015 9:29 pm by Emma

This is such a beautiful film about the life and work of herbalist Juliette de Bairacli Levy. I highly recommend taking a bit of time out to watch and then go for a nice long walk somewhere green!  Click here to view




Posted on January 27, 2015 4:38 pm by Emma

…What do you think has become of the young and old men?

And what do you think has become of the women and children?

 

They are alive and well somewhere,

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,

And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,

And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.

 

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,

 

And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier…

 

From ‘Song of Myself’ Walt Whitman




The Moment

Posted on December 18, 2014 10:34 am by Emma

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 the same moment when the trees unloose

their soft arms from around you,

the birds take back their language,

the cliffs fissure and collapse,

the air moves back from you like a wave

and you can’t breathe.

 

No, they whisper. You own nothing.

You were a visitor, time after time

climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.

We never belonged to you.

You never found us.

It was always the other way round.

 

Margaret Atwood

Heart of the Dragon, Yemen, 2010

Rilke’s Bayon, Cambodia, 2007.

Majesty, UK, 2005.

Images from here

 

 

 




Nature

Posted on October 22, 2014 1:32 pm by Emma

‘But perhaps nature needs us like a hostage needs her captors: nature needs us not to annihilate her, not to run her over, not to cover her with cement, not to chop her down.  We can hardly admire ourselves, then, when we stop to accommodate nature’s needs: we are dubious heroes who create a peril and then save its victims, we who rescue the animals and the trees from ourselves.’  Amy Leach, ‘Things That Are’.

Image from here




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