For the trees
We live like we have a global credit card, we want the good things now, easy, just taking it. Repayment is a vague cloud sometime in the future, often forgotten.
There is no such thing as a one way flow, no light without dark, male without female, hot without cold, yin without yang. We are generously receiving from nature, and often forget to give something back.
This balance is a simple truth, how come it is not taught to our children? Many things cannot be taught in a formal classroom situation. They have to be experienced, we have to see people do it to believe it can be done. Where are the enlightened examples, role models, wise (wo)men and practitioners?
We pollute the air, we breath out CO2, let's take our children into the forests to see the beings who deal with our waste and provide fresh oxygen for us. They are not anonymous, they are living beings. We can touch them, hug them, talk to them and ask them questions. They shelter us, conserve our water, provide timber for cooking and heating, fruit and nuts to eat, medicines, shade, play spaces and habitation for hundreds of species of animals.
They are intelligent, communicate with one another, care for each other, share nutrients they bring up from deep down in the earth ...let's go and meet them, welcome them in our vicinity, pick up their seeds and start a tree nursery, care for the seedlings and plant them out in those bare fields, hedgerows, urban green spaces, along walkways, on slopes to stabilize the ground.
Plant them to mark a point in your life for the birth of a child, marriage, anniversary, in memoriam for a friend who passed away or just out of joy and gratitude.
Trees are sacred. They used to be. Our ancestors new. They met in Woodland Sanctuaries and tree groves to learn, teach, celebrate and worship. Restoring them might bring us a step closer back to paradise.
Today I planted about a dozen Apple Trees, Sweet Chestnut and Alder...
There is no such thing as a one way flow, no light without dark, male without female, hot without cold, yin without yang. We are generously receiving from nature, and often forget to give something back.
This balance is a simple truth, how come it is not taught to our children? Many things cannot be taught in a formal classroom situation. They have to be experienced, we have to see people do it to believe it can be done. Where are the enlightened examples, role models, wise (wo)men and practitioners?
We pollute the air, we breath out CO2, let's take our children into the forests to see the beings who deal with our waste and provide fresh oxygen for us. They are not anonymous, they are living beings. We can touch them, hug them, talk to them and ask them questions. They shelter us, conserve our water, provide timber for cooking and heating, fruit and nuts to eat, medicines, shade, play spaces and habitation for hundreds of species of animals.
They are intelligent, communicate with one another, care for each other, share nutrients they bring up from deep down in the earth ...let's go and meet them, welcome them in our vicinity, pick up their seeds and start a tree nursery, care for the seedlings and plant them out in those bare fields, hedgerows, urban green spaces, along walkways, on slopes to stabilize the ground.
Plant them to mark a point in your life for the birth of a child, marriage, anniversary, in memoriam for a friend who passed away or just out of joy and gratitude.
Trees are sacred. They used to be. Our ancestors new. They met in Woodland Sanctuaries and tree groves to learn, teach, celebrate and worship. Restoring them might bring us a step closer back to paradise.
Today I planted about a dozen Apple Trees, Sweet Chestnut and Alder...