“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
"The light of the mind must flow into and marry with the light of nature to bring forth a world... To see, to hear, to be human requires... our ceaseless participation."
soil, where rock, air, water, and life meet between spheres
I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
– John O'Donohue
Spiritually the spiral represents a connectivity with the divine, spiraling from the outer ego (the outside world) into the inner soul (cosmic awareness and enlightenment). The spiral represents evolution and growth of the spirit. It is a symbol of change and development.
"The most important thing, in response to climate change, is to be willing to hear the sound of the earth's tears through our own bodies." -Thich Nhat Hanh
Natalie Diaz, from Postcolonial Love Poem, 2020
Water remembers everything it travels over and through.
If you have been in water, part of you remains there still.
∆ Natalie Diaz, from Postcolonial Love Poem 2020
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
— Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin
"To live in communion with earth fully acknowledging nature's power with humility and grace is a practice of spiritual mindfulness that heals and restores."
bell hooks
"It seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little."
- Oscar Wilde
visit your mind and bring flowers
Steven Martyn, Madawaska Forest Garden
What gardening is really about is difficult to address with reason, but is actually very simple. The key is too simple and obscure for academia to study. The key to good gardening is in our hearts. It’s about deeply honouring and being connected with the heart of the Earth. It’s from this mysterious connection that culture is co-created and knowledge comes. Evolution in human culture has always come from sparks of information, created through this primary relationship between our heart and the heart of the Earth. These days the sparks are called biomimicry in academic circles. And while the details of the mimicry are carried out by our minds, the “Ah-ha” moments, where the understanding comes into us, comes from our heart.
"Indigenous architecture tends to the small and round, though, following the model of nests and dens and burrows and redds and eggs and wombs—as if there were some universal pattern for home."
