GALERIA NATURALEZA
nature
ONE WITHIN NATURE
The Land is what gives sense and motivation to so many of us.
It is the place where we plant our food, where children enjoy running around barefoot, where the ecosystems thrive; it is the foundation for the houses the way they should be, it is the base for the towns. The Land, understanding it as something alive.
The Land is not how the traditional economists view it: “…where you plant something to grow…”, or “what I buy to build something on…” The Land is alive and we have to know how to listen to it, we have to know how to go along with it, knowing how to respect it, and knowing how to feel it, is what can lead us to happiness.
Without the Land, there’s no sense in what I am working on and reclaiming.
It is the place where we plant our food, where children enjoy running around barefoot, where the ecosystems thrive; it is the foundation for the houses the way they should be, it is the base for the towns. The Land, understanding it as something alive.
The Land is not how the traditional economists view it: “…where you plant something to grow…”, or “what I buy to build something on…” The Land is alive and we have to know how to listen to it, we have to know how to go along with it, knowing how to respect it, and knowing how to feel it, is what can lead us to happiness.
Without the Land, there’s no sense in what I am working on and reclaiming.
XAVI MONTANYÉS
Civilization is the withdrawal of the Humankind upon herself and upon all her creation.
It is truly passionate and fascinating to study different cultures. I travel around the world to study the relationships between human beings and plants, that’s what interests me the most, and I have discovered so many cultures and everything Man has invented around the world. It’s true, it is fascinating, there’s enough to spend a whole lifetimes exploring it.
Humanity has become navel-gazing, self-centred, we look at ourselves and see genius, we consider ourselves God, a demiurge. We create and believe we can create as well as the Universe, as Nature, as God. All of a sudden we forget about all the rest, and when we are reminded we feel bad, because we know it’s not a good plan, it’s not a good thing, it is not sustainable, it’s the giant with feet of clay.
It’s missing the base, and the base is precisely the relationship with the whole, the relationship with the other plants, the relationship with the other living beings. In this way humanity has driven away from all the rest and lives in a sphere, in a bubble, thinking it’s the world.
It is truly passionate and fascinating to study different cultures. I travel around the world to study the relationships between human beings and plants, that’s what interests me the most, and I have discovered so many cultures and everything Man has invented around the world. It’s true, it is fascinating, there’s enough to spend a whole lifetimes exploring it.
Humanity has become navel-gazing, self-centred, we look at ourselves and see genius, we consider ourselves God, a demiurge. We create and believe we can create as well as the Universe, as Nature, as God. All of a sudden we forget about all the rest, and when we are reminded we feel bad, because we know it’s not a good plan, it’s not a good thing, it is not sustainable, it’s the giant with feet of clay.
It’s missing the base, and the base is precisely the relationship with the whole, the relationship with the other plants, the relationship with the other living beings. In this way humanity has driven away from all the rest and lives in a sphere, in a bubble, thinking it’s the world.
FRANÇOIS COUPLAN
We have lots of birds. We have a robin that makes a nest in the ivy just outside the kitchen window, in this little house. And if you’re lucky you can actually be there, washing dishes, the day that the young robins take their first flight, fly out of their nest. And if you’ve never seen that in your life, it’s reason enough to live in the countryside.
It’s something to watch: six or eight small birds get on the edge. Some fly and some don’t. And those who don’t have been naturally selected to not reproduce, to be food for the cat or something else.
When you watch how nature takes care of itself: mother robin, at the right time says, ‘Okay kids, you’re ready or you’re not, but those who are ready come with me.’ And she goes out and sits on the branch and starts calling them, and one by one they pop up and fly away. Some don’t make it, but most of them do. And then they just all sit there, happily chirping away and then they start their flying lesson. They’ve already flown that far.
It’s something -if you’ve never seen it, there is no way to describe the feeling I have by living and having that right outside your window. Because you have the window there, the birds don’t even pay any attention to you. They become accustomed to you, they’re in their ivy, they’re looking out. You’re in and looking at them. It’s just fantastic.
It’s something to watch: six or eight small birds get on the edge. Some fly and some don’t. And those who don’t have been naturally selected to not reproduce, to be food for the cat or something else.
When you watch how nature takes care of itself: mother robin, at the right time says, ‘Okay kids, you’re ready or you’re not, but those who are ready come with me.’ And she goes out and sits on the branch and starts calling them, and one by one they pop up and fly away. Some don’t make it, but most of them do. And then they just all sit there, happily chirping away and then they start their flying lesson. They’ve already flown that far.
It’s something -if you’ve never seen it, there is no way to describe the feeling I have by living and having that right outside your window. Because you have the window there, the birds don’t even pay any attention to you. They become accustomed to you, they’re in their ivy, they’re looking out. You’re in and looking at them. It’s just fantastic.
RICHARD WADE
vai a sinistra
vai a sinistra
GALERIA