Do you know how Nature talks and thinks?
๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ โ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ดโยน.
๐๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ช๐ต .
An ancient forest, like the Amazon, is not just the trees and plants, but also the animals, and the people who live and hunt thereยฒ.
Once a year in the Amazon, at an unpredictable time, plump winged ants fly from their nests to mate with other colonies, usually following rain, lightening and floods. Somehow the colonies coordinate with other colonies, and many other species watch and wait for this hour-long migration, including humans, bats, birds, foxes, snakes, and small felines. All the creatures of the forest watch the signs, and when the short migration happens, they feast on these savory delicacies.
All the beings involved in this process are recognizing the signs and habits of the forest. Signs give us information about past and future.
Nature talks through signs. Any change that happens in nature is a signยณ.
Signs are the language of nature.
A change of temperature or season, rainfall, a falling tree, birdsong, a human looking at an animal or an animal looking at a human. Signs only become useful when recognized by another being. The sound of a deer moving in the undergrowth is useful if you are a predator or hunter. Some signs are repeated – โhabitsโ if you like. For example, the change of the seasons and the flowering of a plant. Creatures learn to predict these habits, and whatโs more, to make a habit of predicting these habits.
Noticing the signs of nature and the repeated activities (habits) is thinking.
Beings that think have Selves.
When the village women hear their dogs barking, the tone of the bark tells the women that they are hunting an animal, perhaps a deer. When the barking turns to yelping, the women know that the dogs have now become the hunted. The dogs have misinterpreted what they saw in the forest and the deer they were hunting has turned out to be a mountain lion. They have become the victims of their own mistaken thinking.
๐๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.
Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand
everything better.
๐๐ญ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ
The clearest way
into the Universe
is through a forest wilderness.
๐๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ช๐ณ
Nature is the true revelation
of the Deity to man.
๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ
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1 Kals, E., Schumacher, D. and Montada, L. (1999) โEmotional affinity toward nature as a motivational
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2 Kohn, E., 2013. How forests think: toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press.
3 Peirce, C., 1998. What is a Sign?. In: Peirce Edition Project, ed., The Essential Peirce: Selected
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