dull color, late frost

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Posted on October 31, 2007
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Earth spirituality, Inspiration and reflection

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:

I’m on the road again. Yesterday, I drove out of Maryland by way of I-68 through the Allegheny Mountains and on into West Virginia before getting on the turnpikes and spending the night in Ohio.

Not much color, even there, even in the higher elevations. On the one hand, autumn seems late. It’s nearly November and trees are full of leaves. On the other hand, the dull color and the persistent haze seems to have altered the color of the very air, and I wonder if this loss is permanent.

Have we done so much damage at this point that we are quickly losing our magnificent autumns? Do we understand what this means to the human psyche and spirit if this is true? Do we appreciate yet what this means about how much our atmosphere and its climate is already altered?

So I just wanted to share this reflection from one of my favorite farmer/nature writers whose column appears in the NY Times, Verlyn Klinkenborg. It is about the ‘belated frost’ in upstate New York.

Everything is changing, and if you get close to Nature at all you can hear it, see it, feel it.

What will be left for my young grand niece and nephew? What wonders will they be able to share with their children 20 to 30 years from now?

Get in touch with Nature, friends. This is my plea for the day. It is in getting back in touch with our biological instincts, in restoring our intimate relationships with the natural world around us — the one in which we live and move and have our being — that we find the roots of ecological hope. Restoring these relationships at all the levels required — from the personal to the global — is the beginning of the Earth’s healing and regeneration.


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