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Listen to the cloud floating by...loving the Earth until she loves you back.

Writer's picture: Timothy S. ColmanTimothy S. Colman

We're a beautiful heartbreaking species. Story in WAPO on uncontacted tribe Mashco Piro made me want to write a letter in comments. Oversharing here on Good Nature Notes. :)




“Our original instructions are to listen to that cloud floating by and the wind blowing by. That’s poetry and prose in English but it is ‘wakahan’ in Lakota – it means to consciously apply mystery to everything – everything is alive and has its own consciousness.”


Tiokasin Ghosthorse – a Lakota elder


This story reminds me of Andrea Wulf's noting that Alexander von Humboldt the 18th century scientist mystic who invented the idea of ecosystems and biodiversity said that European colonialists and loggers clearcutting the rainforests in Peru would cause climate change. (See Wulf's talk on Humboldt here


That was back in 1790's.



Some of us are aware we're in a 6th extinction. The only question is if we are committed to compost?


Will the loggers quarterly profit measure our success or will the number of indigenous tribes we leave alone?


What would some measures of thinking for 7 generations instead of this bizarre game the rich are stranded in where everything is win lose?


Thee is a stewardship society being born.


One that presents alternatives to market demands trumping quality of life for all beings.

I know that is difficult to believe today. But 500 years ago we burned epileptics at the stake because the devil was in them. (See Robert Sapolsky's great book Determined for that citation.


FYI Paul Rosolie has spent a good chunk of his life in the Amazon and talks about living ear uncontacted tribes in a fascination convo with Lex Fridman


Eye opening to see someone teaching from experience in the wilds of the Amazon.


Timothy Colman

Good Nature Publishing

Seattle WA WA

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