Notes on Nature

 Notes on Nature #15

What’s alive in nature is not the only source of beauty. Think about bubbles, parabolas, fossils, volcanos and tsunamis. Bubbles become domes. Parabolas become bridges. Fossils teach us. Volcanos and tsunamis give us humility. We may see these things but not see how our civilization bubbles up from them. After all, what did our human ancestors mine from nature?

Notes on Nature #16,

In the lives of our human ancestors, nature was a deity, sacred and terrifying. Humans lived in and from nature. Trying to understand nature was a reverent act made visible in significant rituals. Humans found in nature a place to store their spiritual yearnings. Over time religion and science made nature a human playground. For most, religion and science found no place for human spirituality inside nature. We saw nature as slave to our materialistic imperatives. We hardly noticed our spiritual yearnings became homeless. So now our reverence for nature has slowly been suffocated.