Ferns are very interesting things- they are the first of plants to delve into the soil and develop true roots, but they predate the development of seeds and reproduce via spores.
Nature Deficit Disorder is a blanket term given by modern scholars to a myriad of problems that where pointed out by desmond morris in his book Human zoo- many of the psychological and social issues we face in this age stem from the artificial environment we have created for our selves.
I also believe- and a portion of the medical community is starting to agree that through lack of exposure to organisms in the natural world has created a good deal of modern health issues.
The truth is- we are not above the natural world, we are dependent on it- and we are killing our self in cement and asphalt concentration camps.
Green psychology and sociology are fields that where pioneered by some of great visionaries of 50s and 60s- they are still very new fields but the research and direction they are taking holds some of the best hope for the human individual and race-
Snow white in the frozen lake by darla Teagarden 2012
be easy.
take your time.
you are coming
home
to yourself.
the becoming | wing, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
I’ve been watching a butcher bird build her spring nest for months – on the highest branches of a jacaranda tree, starting at dawn and working away until dark. She’d drop twigs onto the roof to break them up, then carefully fuss and pick them over. Every twig had to be just so. Hours and hours like this, every day. Fighting off honeyeaters and kookaburras, rebuffing her mate when he’d return with unsuitable materials. In stormy winds today, the nest was blown out of the tree and down onto the grass. She sat on the branch where the nest had been, looking lost. Completely heartbreaking to watch, and the tree too high for me to return it. And then she was off, to start all over again somewhere else.
Here is three months work, from a tiny creature of the world. A home the size of a dinner plate. Perfectly round, perfectly woven, lined with soft coconut shell fibre. An intricacy that is almost unimaginable. If we average that this tiny, perfect creature worked 6 hours a day for 3 months, then this perfect home was 540 hours in the making. And that is a kind of magic.
Badu
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