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This posting was updated on 6 October 2023
Sycamore Gap was criminally cut down: Long LiveThe Healing Power of Trees
Photo credit: National Trust
‘Spectacular ancient trees stir deep feelings, as the felling of Sycamore Gap showed.’
‘The act of vandalism in which Northumberland’s famous Sycamore Gap tree was felled last month has produced an outpouring of love and grief. Locals and tourists have shared their memories of the 300-year-old former winner of England’s tree of the year competition, which stood in a gap in Hadrian’s Wall…’- Hannah Jane Parkinson
To celebrate the life of Sycamore Gap and to honour all the trees and their contributions to our health and wellbeing, I wish to offer the following:
“Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk to you if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in nature. But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit.”~ Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo)
LISTENING TO TREES (2012), a painting by Dudley Via Artmajeur
‘How do you listen to a tree?
Not with your ears, only—
But with your whole being.
A tree is a presence to whom you open,
A friend with whom you sit,
A sage from whom you learn
To listen to a tree
Is to return
To original simplicity,
Basic sanity--
Old Lao Tzu's “uncarved block."
How do you listen to a tree?
With hushed expectancy—
As when a mother, awake in the dark,
Listens for her infant’s cry.
With soaring harmony--
As when a singer, losing self,
Becomes the song.
Losing self,
Become the tree.’- Donald P. St. John
'An ash surrounded by gravestones in an ancient churchyard reveals humanity’s urge to tell its own stories through trees'
'Did you know trees and nature have the power to heal us from head to toe?'
Photo:The Healing Power of Trees
Our Heritage is Arboreal and interwoven with the Life of Trees, OUR BEST ALLY FOR THE CLIMATE and GOOD HEALTH
With so much environmental degradation, deforestation, droughts, floods and global warming all around us, the pertinent question must be: Why are trees so important?
‘Trees belong to humanity’s heritage, but they are more than that. Their loss, through catastrophic fires or under business-as-usual, is devastating to many forms of life’.
Stop, Look and Listen: Are trees telling us stories about nature, how to live, the climate crisis, and how to build a better world?
Trees Are The Living Library of Life
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George Bernard Shaw, summed up a wise approach to life:
Other people, he said "see things and . . . say 'Why?' . . . But I dream things that never were-- and I say: 'Why not?'
We, the people, ordinary and humble as we are, with the power of our hope, confidence, imagination, and dream, will at the end triumph, and build a better world for all our loved ones and all that we value
Together for a Better, Healthier and Kinder Tomorrow
It is not about us and them: The Voices of the older and younger generations in the climate and ecological crisis
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Why is the world like a house of cards falling apart?
Photo:DeviantArt
Yes, the world, like a house of cards, is falling to pieces, shattered and humiliated.
But, why?
To my mind, the first culprit is called: HYPOCRISY and the Faking Politicians!
Hypocritical Leaders Make Poor Leaders
They are leading the world to catastrophe
Photo:ChiefExecutive
Authenticity In Politics and International Relations Matters More Than Ever—Here’s Why
Let me highlight this with one, simple, but significant, example:
Australia in many people’s eyes, is the number one climate crisis, global warming denier, setting itself and the world on fire.
Catastrophic Australian Bushfires
Bushfires in east Gippsland on 2 January 2020. Photo: Darrian Traynor/Getty/Via Nature
Many different regions in Australia were devastated by the enormous bushfires of 2019-2021. Billions of animals including koalas and kangaroos were killed or displaced and thousands of homes were destroyed.
Smoke from the massive bushfires that hit Australia in the 2019-20 summer was linked to more than 445 deaths. Whilst, more than 4,000 people were admitted to hospital due to the smoke.
With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia’s costliest natural disaster
Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment.
Catastrophic Australian bushfires derail research
Australia’s Shame and Degradation of Humanity
Refugees and asylum seekers protest Australian policy on 'offshore' immigration processing (for third countries) at the main
detention center on Manus Island in November 2017.-Photo: MSF
Australia is also amongst the world’s worst human rights’ abusers and deniers. Beginning with its treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and more recently with its criminal policies regarding incarceration and detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Manus and Nauru Islands and more.
Manus Island - A movie secretly shot inside former asylum camp
The predicament of detainees on Manus Island and Nauru has largely been ignored. But two Iranians have documented their misery for the celluloid.
"Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time" is a documentary film secretly shot by an Iranian asylum seeker in a former asylum detention camp on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
Then on the eve of COP26, Britain (the host of Cop26) and the US, reward Australia with weapons of mass destruction, whilst telling Mother Nature to go to hell and instead begin to prepare for the upcoming war with China!
Photo: Getty Images
…’The pact also speaks volumes about western hypocrisy over nuclear proliferation. Courtesy of the US, Australia will acquire sophisticated technology, off-the-shelf reactors fuelled by enriched uranium, and the latest know-how.
‘This transfer breaks international rules and shatters anti-nuclear taboos. It plainly opens the door to an Australian nuclear weapons capability. Beijing will surely find painful ways to hit back over what President Xi Jinping calls interference in the “internal affairs of this region”.
‘Shattered, too, is western solidarity in the Indo-Pacific in countering Chinese aggression. The EU published a new regional strategy last week. It favours “multifaceted engagement”, not an American-led arms race. What would the US do – what would Israel – if Iran, bypassing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, suddenly decided to nuclearise its military capabilities? They’d go nuts. Shouting would likely be followed by shooting…’- Simon Tisdall:Making waves in the Pacific
See also:Why the AUKUS Submarine Deal Is Bad for Nonproliferation
Iran hits out at U.S., Britain over AUKUS deal
Its Better Late than Never: Now Even the Head of the IAEA is Admitting to the Hypocrisy of Aukus
Then, today, the self-declared “emperor” of Manus and Nauru, has the audacity of saying that, he has bigger fish to fry in Australia, and thus, he is not sure if he wants to travel to Scotland attending the COP26. Thus, for now, this “emperor” has no clothes!
If this is not hypocricity par excellence, then, what is it!! There you have it! Now we all know why the world is, as it is today!! In total mess!!
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