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Originally Posted by Altair
Makes it really hard to probably even be there.
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I guess it is because of the brain elasticity thing that we get used to all kinds of new normals, until it is even hard to imagine Ireland as a thickly forested land - it once was.
Yet to my ear the Celtic Harp music is divine. It speaks of the (connection to) the magical leafy woodlands and flowery meadows. Celtic Harp music (to me) is like
“an empty perfume bottle, nothing is left, yet the scent lingers on”. (Quote from a Buddhist teacher). But that scent can ignite the passion for renewal, to reconnect …
So I can’t wait! for this rewilding to become more widespread.
It also speaks of this Pegan Proto-Indo-European culture (Scandinavians, even Finns, Balts, Slavs, Germanics, Celts share …) The Tree of Life …The Yew Tree, The Yggdrasil …. Oaks connected to Thunder Gods etc. and there is much beauty in that.
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Originally Posted by Altair
I call myself a Forest Fundamentalist. An environment needs old-growth forests, or else is in need of the blessing of the forest gods!   |
To a hunter-gatherer, the Forest means identity, the Totality of one’s soul or self, one is only a part of. So to live in a clear-felled, deforested landscape would be quite unthinkable.
Reforestation in Oz ...
A Southern Cassowary documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSYbqixo2U
Rewilding the Desert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7aPs39bb-A
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