14/11/2024
We love listening to Honey Bees but imagine being able to hear the stars too! What an amazing way to connect.
It would be lovely to know how you connect with our natural world too in the comments below.
“In The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post writes about living among the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert and describes how shocked they were that he couldn’t hear the stars.
At first they thought he must be joking or lying. When they realized he really couldn’t hear the stars, they concluded he must be very ill and expressed great sorrow. For the Bushmen knew anyone who can’t hear nature must have the gravest sickness of all.
For nearly all of the time humans have been on the planet, regular conversations across the species border were an everyday natural part of life.
Sadly, this seems like a strange invitation in our world today; most people have difficulty initiating such a conversation. Perhaps this is because we’ve been taught from a very young age to perceive nature as separate, a life-less object, a commodity. This mistaken perception seems to be at the foundation of our cultural ills.
Humanity’s ability to perceive the sentience of Earth is critical to our survival and to all life on earth.
Longing to be in conversation with nature can catalyze us. And perhaps the natural world longs for this relationship with us too...”
~ Rebecca Wildbear, the Animas Valley Institute https://www.animas.org/
[The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.]
