When we learn to look really closely at Nature, secret doors open to knowledge, biology, art, and mystery.
When our awareness steadies in focused observation, colors deepen, shapes define, strange relationships develop, and patterns emerge.
It takes bravery to receptively witness the beauty of the world. It takes a refined, disciplined, masocism to endure the pleasures of percieving the gorgeousness of our burning world.
We must willfully shake off our everyday daze and be voluntarily tazed by the miracles blooming and swooping all around.
A long, thorough, multi-seasonal contemplation of Nature in Her many forms brings ever deepening revelation.
Humans need these skills for appreciating Nature, so we’ll turn less Nature into parking lots, so we’ll be content with non-consumptive pleasures like looking at the subtle colors of sunset.
We take the right posture when we adopt a reverent appreciation for the great beauty that surrounds us in the Web of Life.
The skill of deep appreciation of Nature offers necessary skills that humans need in our effort to create planetary survival.
When we see Nature, when we learn to really open up to Nature’s beauty in her delicate and useful shapes/colors/forms, we are gifted with appreciation for the Lifeweb that supports us. And we need that gratitude for Life, in all her stunning complexity, because it strengthens our connection to the Earth that we need to work fiercely to protect.
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