While there is still time

  For my dear friend Reena, gardener, lover of gardens, creator of beauty "Indeed, to garden — even merely to be in a garden — is nothi...

'Thinking like a mountain' was one of the books recommended by Malvika Solanki during an amazing permaculture course I did with her ...

  James Godfrey-Faussett: "100 years ago Ethiopia was blanketed by 45% forest and now that figure is down to just 5%. Part of the survi...

 Amazing facts shared by my farmer friend Madhu Reddy , from an article in Down to Earth :  "The Baiga are an ethnic group found in ce...

Love Letters Every day, priests minutely examine the Law And endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, ...

"Time is kept and curated in different ways by trees, and so it is experienced in different ways when one is among them. This discreti...

"I can’t quite shake the astonishment. I can’t quite believe what my life keeps teaching me, that material ...

Learning from Trees If we could, like the trees, practice dying, do it every year just as something we do— lik...

The older I get, the more I understand the importance of having multiple sources of energy -  especially sources outsi...

Blue skies And dragonflies, October. Notes from a Ritual Note 12: Receiving http://whiletheworldisgoingplaces....

I have no philosophy, I have senses… If I speak of Nature it’s not because I know what it is But because I love it, and for that very reaso...

Have been photographing this for years, marveling at the patterns this creates, but never knew there is a name for it. ...

If it rains in the night, the streets are plastered with fallen flowers and leaves the next morning. There’s a whole w...

Helen Lloyd is a British cyclist who cycles solo through remote parts of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia. Watching these in slideshow full sc...

"Rilke recommended that when life became turbulent and troublesome, it was wise to stay close to one simple thing in nature. A friend...

"A Supreme Court of Canada decision has granted the Tsilhqot'in First Nation of British Columbia Aboriginal title over a wide area...

Yes, there are traffic jams, there is pollution, there is noise. But then there are other stations you can still tune ...

Ninth Duino Elegy (excerpt) Praise the world to the angel: leave the unsayable aside. Your exalted feelings do not move him. In the uni...

"I offer my opinion to The New York Times, on Groundhog Day, 2003, just weeks before we invade Iraq: .....As we find ourselves on th...

“Biologist Constantin Slobodchikoff, in his twenty years of researching communication patterns among prairie dogs, has proven that they hav...