“When you consider it from a human perspective life is an odd thing. It couldn’t wait to get going, but then, having got going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on. Consider the lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but among the least ambitious. They will grow happily enough in a sunny churchyard, but they particularly thrive in environments where no other organism would go – on blowy mountaintops and Arctic wastes, wherever there is little but rock and rain and cold, and almost no competition. It would be hard to imagine a less fulfilling existence. They simply exist testifying to the moving fact that life even at its simplest level occurs, apparently, just for its own sake.
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we’ve been endowed with. But what’s life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours – arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don’t. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment’s additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be."
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the fuckin’ planet? There’s nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doing great. It’s been here over four billion years.
i truly feel excited about all the concepts you have brought together in your writing. my opinions as a woman are very fine edged with your explenations and detail. i truly believe its genius to involve all the elements, together with cooking, even life as an element in addition to earth, wind, fire and water. it is afterall the universe which controls all these aspects. the mind is also an element to consider in your writing, the mind is the one human element which makes us all different from one another. minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize, but when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we are lost..minds are excellent at presenting a thousand different variations of the past and conjuring them into a future. and then scaring us with most of them. most of the time we dont question our minds, we believe in their lunacy. we have a thought and run with it we evoke a corresponding emotion and we are suddenly in a mode of anger, anxiety, blame, happiness,sadness, we need to meditate our minds, daily, to be transported to a bliss realm. just a thought for your writing...
ReplyDeletewe are unrepepeatable beings of life, space and water and im very enthralled with your writing concept, very excited to read more. its so enthralling to read your work because as people we spend our lives following instructions given to us ten or thirty or fifty years ago (recipes, gardening,how to raise your children, life in general) by people who we wouldnt ask street directions from today,but as human beings we do this,we dont think for ourselves, we all need to broaden our horizons and use our minds in a wider perspective. thank you for making the time to write this book, i will most certainly be a very close follower.
best of luck xxx