Highly recommend reading a new book called The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville — will make you feel hopeful about the future of the planet
This was so what I needed to read this morning! I would recommend the book An Irish Atlantic Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding https://g.co/kgs/TemER15
Such a beautiful list, thank you. Ecological restoration is also one of my love languages hehe 🤭 In Nov 22 after reading Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain my husband, dog and I took a van pilgrimage around lesser known parts of the NW Highlands of Scotland to find them :) I think I wrote a post somewhere. In anyncase, I recommend making the trip one day!! :) xx
Lovely, Rebecca. My favorite stories of hope are also those of the Earth recovering when we give her space and time to do so...and those stories lovely, loving souls who take it upon themselves to replant lost jungles and forests, sometimes faithfully working on their own in obscurity for many years. I also rejected religion for similar reasons, and find my sense of the sacred in the living Earth herself. xo
I love that you share. You provide us with factual resources, to dig deeper if we’re so inclined. Not only do you share your own thoughtful and creative writing, you have extended a hand to other writers . Helping to create a community of readers and writers who know they can not thrive without nature. If only just to witness beauty were enough. Nor can the wonders of nature and all of it’s beings , thrive without our help. Sad to say, we must find a way to repair , what we have destroyed.
If you don’t mind, I would like to add you to your own list.
Beautiful, and indeed here in the UK I suspect that very few people know about the Celtic rainforests, though as you’ve found there are people writing about them and raising awareness of the little pockets left. I visited the Ballachuan hazelwood on the Scottish isle of Seil last April and it was truly a magical place - full of lichens, mossy rocks, wildflowers and the hush of being in an ancient place.
This is a nice, but also a good thought. To balance out destruction, create something positive and of benefit for someone human or nonhuman. I try to follow this dictum.
And, although I am no means Christian, I do find the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth of great benefit. I have read the NT and find that he wants us to be good stewards of the Earth and to enjoy its beauty and all that is contained within.
I am fairly certain Jesus would be surprised at what goes for modern Christianity today. And I do love Celtic mythology and music. I used to listen to Loreena McKennitt and I must get back to it. Her Lady of Shalott is hauntinly beautiful.
Highly recommend reading a new book called The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville — will make you feel hopeful about the future of the planet
Beautiful, Rebecca. Makes me feel like I've just been amongst the song leaves might make in soft rain, and mist.
Rebecca, you have a wonderful spirit- broad, deep, bright, and loving. And your newsletter reflects it. So fortunate we are to be subscribers.
This was so what I needed to read this morning! I would recommend the book An Irish Atlantic Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding https://g.co/kgs/TemER15
The lost rainforest maps are making me very sad this morning ... what a loss
Thanks, Rebecca.
Beautiful, Rebecca. Thank you for this diversity of wonders.
Such a beautiful list, thank you. Ecological restoration is also one of my love languages hehe 🤭 In Nov 22 after reading Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain my husband, dog and I took a van pilgrimage around lesser known parts of the NW Highlands of Scotland to find them :) I think I wrote a post somewhere. In anyncase, I recommend making the trip one day!! :) xx
Lovely, Rebecca. My favorite stories of hope are also those of the Earth recovering when we give her space and time to do so...and those stories lovely, loving souls who take it upon themselves to replant lost jungles and forests, sometimes faithfully working on their own in obscurity for many years. I also rejected religion for similar reasons, and find my sense of the sacred in the living Earth herself. xo
I love that you share. You provide us with factual resources, to dig deeper if we’re so inclined. Not only do you share your own thoughtful and creative writing, you have extended a hand to other writers . Helping to create a community of readers and writers who know they can not thrive without nature. If only just to witness beauty were enough. Nor can the wonders of nature and all of it’s beings , thrive without our help. Sad to say, we must find a way to repair , what we have destroyed.
If you don’t mind, I would like to add you to your own list.
Because sharing , really is a
beautiful thing.
Beautiful, and indeed here in the UK I suspect that very few people know about the Celtic rainforests, though as you’ve found there are people writing about them and raising awareness of the little pockets left. I visited the Ballachuan hazelwood on the Scottish isle of Seil last April and it was truly a magical place - full of lichens, mossy rocks, wildflowers and the hush of being in an ancient place.
This is a nice, but also a good thought. To balance out destruction, create something positive and of benefit for someone human or nonhuman. I try to follow this dictum.
And, although I am no means Christian, I do find the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth of great benefit. I have read the NT and find that he wants us to be good stewards of the Earth and to enjoy its beauty and all that is contained within.
I am fairly certain Jesus would be surprised at what goes for modern Christianity today. And I do love Celtic mythology and music. I used to listen to Loreena McKennitt and I must get back to it. Her Lady of Shalott is hauntinly beautiful.