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Date Posted: 03:40:59 01/15/10 Fri
Author: darren lillywhite (always inquiring)
Subject: Re: relationship with nature
In reply to: Jennifer from bucks county, Pa 's message, "Re: relationship with nature" on 17:04:51 01/11/10 Mon

>>hello everyone, my name is darren and i live in
>>sheffield england. I first became interested in
>>indiginous cultures through my love of nature, that is
>>what we point to as animals plants mountains weather
>>etc. since childhood i have taken many turns in life,
>>one moment this, next moment that, but the one
>>constant within all this has been my relationship with
>>the natural world. you see we are taught about the
>>natural world at school as something over there, but
>>my experience teaches me that i am part of the natural
>>world along with everyone and everything else in the
>>universe. this is not a flight of fancy or some escape
>>from the real, this is the real. leaving the usual
>>unsatisfactory books behind i began to read books by
>>native peoples of australasia, north and south america
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>>africa and realised they were speaking of nature in a
>>totally different way to what i had been taught for so
>>many years. i can't help but feel if we had this kind
>>of teaching in our schools, colleges and homes, the
>>planet would not be in the state it is.
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>Hello. I agree with you. This generation is consumed
>with video games and television cutting them off from
>whats real, the earth and all its creation. It's not
>normal or healthy. We need the outdoors to remind us
>of who we are and where we come from.

the problem seems to be that we don't know how to live,society with its war, greed, self centred behaviour and everyone seperated into different groups breeds conflict and most of us cannot copewith it all. so we escape into drugs, drink, tv, pornography and so on.the problem with this is, whilst we are induldged in these things we are not working to solve the problems that we hide from, and they get worse, so we run and hide again.
the vicious circle begins.

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Re: relationship with nature -- Jennifer from bucks county pa, 06:34:30 01/21/10 Thu
- Re: relationship with nature -- Dolora Zajick, 17:01:34 02/27/10 Sat