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Tune Into Your Emotional Connection To Earth
Wildlife And Woodland are awake to what they feel, we can learn much from them, even in this Sixth Extinction
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, Currents, and Ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
We went to the woods deliberately, but not to cry
This last weekend was Earth Day, and we walked in a tiny pocket of woods surrounded by miles and miles of agricultural land and roads. There are also hundreds of homes and small, rural businesses. The effluvia of those homes and farms make its way, ‘right’ as rain, into the lakes and rivers.
Seeing a fully diverse, wild, vigorous, and absolutely stunning spring woodland bursting into bloom will melt the hardest heart.
But knowing so much of this has disappeared and will continue to disappear from the Earth we knew, breaks the heart and muddles the mind.
Our cognitive dissonance has been stirred like this before. We sometimes take Ecotourism trips and are overcome with the joy of say, seeing a living, imposing leopard, but we are also reminded the beautiful beast is kept behind bars for the sin of being too dazzling. Yet, the fact that we…