Video of Stream and Clouds
I like to watch cloud forms move up ridges and hillsides. I also like to see the branches and leaves trailing in the stream, bending back and forth.
I like to watch cloud forms move up ridges and hillsides. I also like to see the branches and leaves trailing in the stream, bending back and forth.
Need “transformation” and “awe at the grandeur, interconnectedness and unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes”, not compromise. Need enforceable laws and empathy for the victims, not pro-corporate appeasement.
Posted on October 30, 2015
Trees give off anti-microbial compounds. People exercise and socialize out in wild places. "It reduces the risk of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, premature death, and preterm birth, and increases sleep duration."
https://www.treehugger.com/health/huge-study-confirms-significant-health-benefits-nature.html
George Wuerthner sent out this
Here is a poem by Kristen Marshall. She is an active volunteer in the Boulder Rights of Nature group. Link Every Thursday she used to visit a sick friend, and make him pancakes. She often walks to get places. She would volunteer for the community bookstore. http://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/words/still-life/
David George Haskell's new book fascinates me. He tells of the music and songs of trees and rivers: the sounds of rain on different leaves, the wind in the upper leaves of the ceibo trees, the calls of bromeliad frogs, of parrots, of insects, monkeys, crested owls, spectacled owls, tawny screech owls, and tinamou. He recounts the pain of a bullet ant bite. He relates that " good and harmonious life" with reciprocity and solidarity" Listen to the trees as you walk amongst them and as you dream. He describes the tension as local communities fight against the oil companies and consumerism in the Ecuadorean forests.