Appreciation of story about nature harmony
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The Story of Harmony Home Nature Arts Camp...
By Ruai (Rekha) Gregory, M.A.
Instructor, Early Childhood Education, Blue Mountain Community College
My husband, Forest (Viira Bhadra), and I began our summer Nature Camp program for 4-11 year olds at our home in northeast Oregon in 2000. We had built and maintained a beautiful nature trail system on our 15 acres that we decided to share with children. Our backgrounds in education (including Neohumanist Education and Waldorf) combined with Forest’s experience in forestry provided the foundation for our program. However, as these things often do, circumstances, children’s responses and the land itself have assisted greatly in its evolution.
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There is a great deal of talk and endeavour to protect nature, the animals, the birds, the whales and dolphins, to clean the polluted rivers, lakes, fields and so on. Nature is not put together by thought, as religion and belief are. Nature is the tiger, that extraordinary animal with its energy, its great sense of power. Nature is the solitary tree in the field, the meadows and the grove; it is that squirrel shyly hiding behind a bough. Nature is the ant, the bee and all the living things of the earth. Nature is the river, not a particular river, whether the Ganga, the Thames or the Mississippi. Nature is those mountains, snow-clad, with dark blue valleys and range of hills meeting the sea. The universe is part of nature. One must have a feeling for all this, not destroy it, not kill for one’s pleasure or one’s table. We do kill cabbages, the vegetables we eat, but one must draw the line somewhere. If you do not eat vegetables, how will you live? So one must intelligently discern.
See for the first time that tree, bush or blade of grass.
Nature is part of our life. We grew out of the seed, the earth, and we are part of all that, but we are rapidly losing the sense that we are animals like the others. Can you have a feeling for a tree, look at it, see the beauty of it, listen to the sound it makes? Can you be sensitive to the little plant, a little weed, to that creeper growing up the wall, to the light on the leaves and the many shadows? One must be aware of all this and have that sense of communion with nature around you. You may live in a town, but you do have trees here and there. A flower in the next garden may be ill-kept, crowded with weeds, but look at it, feel that you are part of all that, part of all living things. If you hurt nature, you are hurting yourself.
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