I never travel
Why?
Because I am not in the world
the world is in me
I am always where I am
France, September 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net
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‘Bloodvessel of the Earth’
France, September 2010
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Harvest of Wild Brambles
Harvest of Yellow Poppy
France, August 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net
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Interlude
‘Owning land’ - a commonly accepted concept that the earth is private property of human beings
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Principles of Earth Democracy
…4. All beings have a natural right to sustenance.
All members of the earth community, including all humans, have the right to sustenance — to food and water, to a safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. Resources vital to sustenance must stay in the commons. The right to sustenance is a natural right because it is the right to life. These rights are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain life.
Excerpt from
Earth Democracy : Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
By Vandana Shiva
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In the Okanagan, our understanding of the land is that it’s not just that we’re part of the land, it’s not just that we’re part of the vast system that operates the land, but that the land is us. In our language, the word for our bodies contains the word for land, so when I say that word, it means that not only is my ability to think and to dream present in that word but the last part of that word also means ‘the land’.
Jeanette Armstrong
found in ‘Original Instructions - Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future’, edited by Melissa K. Nelson
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Does the land belong to you, or do you belong to the land?
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France, August 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net
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Thoughts, rocks - do they not have the same source?
When there are no thoughts, where are the rocks?
August 2010
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France, August 2010
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I am movement and stillness at the same time
August 2010
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France, August 2010
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Pirineos
Encounter with Xavier, Shepherd
Spanish Pyrenees, July 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,
am I then not everything?
And is this everything not nothing at the same time?
And isn’t it then so, that nothing ever happens?
July 2010
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Photostream on flickr
July 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net
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The cry of a buzzard
Again
July 2010
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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…
July 2010
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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?
Clouds
France, July 2010 // www.passiveactivism.net
