Ecological consciousness requires a deep respect for the natural world and all things within it. It's generally understood to be a term which reflects the psyche of an individual in relationship to and with Nature.
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
"The structure of the world itself, it functions on natural law, and the natural law is a powerful regenerative process. Its a process of regeneration that continues and grows and is endless. Its absolutely endless if everyone agrees to the law and follows the law. But if you challenge the law, and you think you are going to change the law, then you are bound to failure…"
~ John Trudell, Native American activist
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"The fundamental illusion that modern humans need to wake up from now is the idea that we are somehow separate from Nature. We are not separate, we are Nature herself, in human form. We are a part of a greater Earth community, children of this living planet. Once this understanding becomes "common sense" for high technology cultures and civilizations, humanity will be able to solve the problems we've created, by believing we were somehow superior to other species and separate from our Mother, the Earth."
~ Christopher Chase
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“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
~ Andy Goldsworthy
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"When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire Universe."
~ Henri Matisse
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"We are life. We are nature. We are Universe. Self-reflexive consciousness allows us different perspectives on this ever-transforming and evolving whole we participate in — this all that we are reflections of. We bring forth a world together, as embodied manifestations of the universe co-creating the world through how we participate and what we pay attention to and care about."
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
~ Joseph Campbell
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"Look deep into Nature and you will understand everything better."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Allow Nature's peace to flow into you, as sunshine flows into trees."
~ John Muir
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"Be still, and the earth will speak to you."
~ Navajo proverb
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"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
~ Robert Hunter
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"If a mystic is one who is sensibly or even sensuously aware of his inseparability as an individual from the total existing universe, he is simply a person who has become sensible, aware through his senses of the way ecologists see the world. So when I’m in academic circles I don’t talk about mystical experience. I talk about ecological awareness. Same thing."
- Alan Watts
Image: "The Lover’s World" (1905), oil on canvas by British painter Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945).
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.” ~ Andy Goldsworthy
Love it, sure, we're all in this together...wonderful, Vlada...
Two native Pukeko in the car park at work feeding each other on egg sandwiches,they hold their food in their feet like a human does with their hands..lol
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Art by David Galchutt
Beautiful artwork by David Galchutt Nada,love it as it reminds me of when I saw a whole field of sunflowers a few years back now. I took this photo of it..cos I was going to paint it,but just havnt got around to it as yet.
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