The path has always been clear to those who choose to see. We must shun civilisation and the things of civilisation. In our hearts if not in the wild world itself, we must go into the forest and never come out. We must reunite our souls with the souls of the trees, the rocks, the streams, the dirt. We must meditate on our place in the cosmos. In doing so, we will not change the fate of this world but we will be, at last, true to our nature once again. The world of the Paleolithic hunter gatherers is gone for good. We cannot return to the past. But the gods that we once knew are still waiting for us in the wild places of the world. If we go to them, they will embrace us.
(Ramon Elani, ‘It is Time to Kiss the Earth Again’, 10th October, 2016, The Dark Mountain Blog, http://dark-mountain.net/blog/it-is-time-to-kiss-the-earth-again/)
N.B. The only correction I would add to this quote is that we can, indeed must, change the fate of this world.
a wonderful quotation. and your addendum, yes. we must.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Indeed, we must.
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