Trees are actually linked to each other via an underground ‘web’ connection. A connection that is facilitated by their root systems and bacteria that lives within the ground, creating the original ‘worldwide web’ in natural symbiosis.
This connection allows both trees and fungi to benefit, assuring the right balance of nutrients for them to both thrive but also providing them with the ability to communicate, exchange and protect each other across great distances.
We obviously know the basics about why trees are important to our lives, they provide an atmosphere we can breathe and thrive in. We use them for heat, energy and to write on, but there is actually so much more to know about how impressive they are. Especially when grouped into communities free of human intervention, like forests.
Today’s post is to show my solidarity with the social media challenge #fevriersanssupermarche ‘No-Supermarket February’ – that means no supermarkets for a month! Food shopping is to be done at farmer’s markets and small greengrocers, butchers, organic, bulk or specialist food shops instead.
The aim is to detach people from the belief that they must fund overly polluting mega-nationals to survive, and return some cash flow into the smaller, local economies that help our communities thrive.
According to dominant scientific theories, all of life on this planet originates from the oceans. The official history of aquatic evolution is so much richer than that which has developed on solid ground.
That head start of billions of years in the evolutionary process means that almost every single branch of the tree of life is represented. Some branches even exist exclusively underwater.
With so much of the planet covered in water, it isn’t surprising that scientists make new discoveries every day. At times in shapes, types and forms we couldn’t even fathom existing on our planet.
Buckle up, grab a cuppa, perhaps a smoke and a pancake, it’s kinda wild and long. So come on…
It does indeed seem like nothing on this planet lasts forever, except maybe diamonds and plastic (and quite possibly also foolishness, observable through the rising favour for transhumanism and the metaverse, lol fun times ey?!).
In a “real world” that appears to be enormously lacking logical coherence, we could be asking ourselves what we can do right now to make it more coherent. Right now, we could be creating space for our varied and gentle expressions to co-exist kindly, rather than amplifying despair and allowing our darkest aspects to run the show.
So many advances, so much change, yet here we are, still killing, dominating and culturally cleansing ourselves and each other in fear. Here’s that ever-applicable phrase I love to use; we can change the players, even change the teams, but the game stays much the same. For now, it appears all we are capable of is pointing fingers and passing blame. Tirelessly fanning the flames of unhealthy competition and useless victimhood. Looking to the financially-set and power-hungry “professionals” to guide us whilst conveniently avoiding bringing them or ourselves into question or taking any responsibility for it at all.
When in reality we could be learning a new game that doesn’t benefit the same old cheats and posers over and over again. Building something simple yet wholly wonderful. Something that honours humanity through our integrated differences, celebrates and allows a real container for natural development, a potential of possibility to be learned from, in balance with us all here and now. Rather than continuing to behave mindlessly, or vindictively, as we have been led so far, clearly to our own collective detriment. Wasting our perfect, coherent, natural expressions in an illusionary and heavily manipulated experience that only really benefits a few who couldn’t care less for our general and ongoing wellbeing as a whole.
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
There’s something so delicious about surrendering yourself to the present moment. Something shifts and allows you to fully stand inside the immensity of the universe. Something that makes you realise although you are a mere and insignificant speck in the fabric of reality, it is where you are meant to be right here and now. Something that allows you to recognise yourself fully and that which is truly important to you.
Take time to find the beauty in nature around you and right there within you, because that’s the only thing that is real. You are insanely powerful, and everything you do has an effect here. This planet is paradise if we choose it to be. Take a deep breath, renew yourself, savour the smell of the fresh air and always remember that you are loved. Your life on this planet is a precious gift to all of us, so act accordingly. 💙🌺
I’ve lost count because I do the action every single time I go outdoors, sometimes several times a day. If I see it and I don’t already have my hands full, then I’m sure as heck gunna pick it up.
We know the surface of the moon better than we do the ocean floor.
Spending more time discovering our planet’s oceans is essential if we are to understand anything. After all, the majority of the air we breathe and the climate we live in is regulated in large parts by the ocean. Finding an appreciation for something so vital to our lives is important, for our own wellbeing, but also for that of the planet.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
“Biodiversity concerns us first and foremost because we are biodiversity, us and everything that lives on earth.”
Hubert Reeves Unofficially translated by Natacha Neveu @thesortinghouse from ‘Grain’ the book from @la_releve_et_la_peste : “La biodiversité nous concerne au premier chef, car la biodiversité c’est nous, nous et tout ce qui vit sur terre.”
“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
Anna Sewell
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Vicki Corona
“The enormous potential of youth can be unleashed for the wellbeing of the world, and it would have a tremendous impact, only if we make our youth inspired, inclusive and insightful.”
Sadhguru
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.”
Cigarette butts are one of the leading causes of ocean (and planet) pollution – they are made from plastic fibres that do not decompose but rather draw further pollutants to it over time. They are easily mistaken for food by animals who have been found with heaps of our synthetic materials in their stomachs on autopsy and if that wasn’t bad enough, they look hideous littered everywhere, they won’t ever disappear and just one butt can pollute 500 litres of our clean water.
Every time I go out, I pick up at least #1pieceofrubbish , sometimes more, but never less. It feels quite good, I confess.
I don’t even have to go out of my way, because there is rubbish there every day. Whenever, all the time. Wherever I go, I find.
Today, wherever you are; whether you’re going from house to car, bus to work, or work to bar – whoever you are, just pick one piece of rubbish up this time and humanity might end up being just fine.
Without actually even going out of your way, it’s possible to claim this rubbish today, make it your piece to dispose of in a much better, a much nicer way.
