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The Natural Circus on the Road / Jul- 2010

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Spain, July 2010

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If everything happens only now,
which it obviously does,
and if I am only now,
which I obviously am
Who worries? And why?
Don’t you need time and space for worries?
Does time and space really exist?
Doesn’t it need an individual to have worries?
Does this really exist?
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Photostream on flickr
July 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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The cry of a buzzard
Again

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What a pleasure to wake up next to a field or the woods!
What a pleasure to have your meals outside,
to be with wind, animals, clouds, stars…

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Isn’t that ‘thing’ I call cloud really a process, a constant transformation?
Isn’t that ‘thing’ we call human being really the same as a cloud?
Is not everything we name, sense, think, experience - even the earth herself, even the universe, just as this body, just as this thought -
not the same as a cloud?
When does all appear? Where does all appear?

Does evolution really exist?

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France, July 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

The Natural Circus on the Road / Jan-Jun 2010

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near Drome Valley, France, March 2010

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Natural Dance / Natural Talk

from stillness
to movement
to stillness
pervaded
by stillness
- the dance

from silence
to sound
to silence
pervaded
by silence
- the talk

the movement
the word
is the phenomenon
the universe
creating itself
out of nothing

nobody dances
nobody talks

(that is why it is impossible to improve the world)

March 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Conversation with North Sea
Amrum Island / Germany, January 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Conversation with Clearing
Drome Valley / France, March 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Conversation with Forest Trail in Winter
Drome Valley / France, March 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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A Blanket for the Soil
Drome Valley / France, March 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Au vent
Lac Salagou / France, April 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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As long as you see me
- A spark
When I am gone
- Yourself

April 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Spaces n’ Places

Photostream on flickr
May 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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First Natural Circus Garden Project
using Permaculture and Natural Farming Methods:
Les Arbods / France

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May 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Rochers des Combes / France, May 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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‘How many shades of green can you name?
Where do they come from?’
May 2010

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Vercors / France, May 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Unforseeable
Drome Valley / France, May 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

What if there would be no difference between ‘my life’ and ‘this field’?
Am I not being moved? Do I breathe willingly? Who is this ‘I’ that claims to be acting?

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On the road…, France, June 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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‘The Natural Circus is what happens when there is noone who thinks’

June 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

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Vercors / France, June 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net

Meeting Olivier Hannoun

One day you arrive in a farm. You ask if you can stay for a few days. They leave you a caravan in the back of the garden and the goats to herd.

You feel quite satisfied with this new occupation. Everyday you wake up at 7 o’clock in the morning and take the goats to the mountains. There they just spread around and start to eat. As far as you’re concerned you spend most of time looking at the landscape. From time to time some of them get into a fight and you have to call for a bit of calm but on the whole they are quite peaceful. Later you show the direction of the valley and they all follow you down except the brown one with the white stains who as always is making some trouble but when you bring most of the herd in one direction she ends up following the movement.

Continued reading >

The Great Sea

The great sea
Has sent me adrift
It moves me
As the weed in a great river
Earth and great weather
Move me
Have carried me away
And move my inward parts with joy.

Song of Uvanuk, an Inuit woman shaman

Meeting Martina von Holn

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Wehrbellin See

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Growing Waters

Images © Martina von Holn

http://www.martinavonholn.com/

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Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost.
Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are.
You must let it find you.

“Lost” by David Wagoner

Meeting Niik

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=61502984

L’enfant, DV, b/w, 2009

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http://www.myspace.com/niikick

Laurent by Lars Schmidt

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Laurent, S-8, b/w, 3:32min, 1998

Lars Schmidt
www.art-ecology-education.org

The Natural Circus declares Interdependence

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español, français, português, italiano, deutsch, svenska, chinese, catalan, euskera

This is an open experiment.
A putting in words of what is already in the air.
The more this declaration is being read, thought or spoken out, the more its energy will manifest in our world and in our society.
If what is written here resonates with you, make it your statement.
Find ways to read it, share it and put it into action.

DECLARATION OF CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARIES 2009

Continued reading >

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