Nature

Today on 8 March is International Women's Day, and what better way to honour the Mother Earth as feminine beings, by opening this door to celebrate the day of feminism, the day of nature.  

"Nature is like a woman who enjoys disguising herself, and whose different disguises, revealing now one part of her ad now another, permit those who study her and assiduously to hope that one day they may know the whole of her person" - Denis Diderot (French Philosopher)

“Dear Nature is the kindest mother still,

Though always changing, in her aspect mild;  From her bare bosom let me take my fill, Her never-wean'd, though not her favour'd child.  Oh! she is fairest in her features wild,  Where nothing polish'd dares pollute her path: To me by day or night she ever smiled, Though I have mark'd her when none other hath, And sought her more and more, and loved her best in wrath.” - Lord Byron (British Romantic poet)

Once upon a time when we first appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens are part of nature, living in harmony and in balance with other beings on this beautiful Earth which exists in the universe since 4.5 billion years ago.  In the past 60 years, the human have significantly distorted the balance of nature and biodiversity and the impacts on climate and the environment have unfolded at an unprecedented rate and scale.  After years of habitat destruction, deforestation, natural resources extraction, Carbon dioxide emissions, ocean pollution from the use of plastic bags, we could see extreme weather patterns are becoming increasingly common across the globe, a number of devastating typhoons and rainstorms in Hong Kong causing flooding, waterlogging and landslides also pose threats to the safety of citizens and urban infrastructure; heatwaves in Europe; bushfires and Wildfires in Australia; wildfires and flooding in US; extensive groundwater loss in India and droughts in Central America.  Plastics that do not biodegrade had ended up littering the soil and ocean beds.  

How can we apply the moral concept of Right Action, as part of the Noble Eightfold Path, to our lives in the Era of Anthropocene period?  A way of living that is committed to refraining from harming living beings and taking what’s not given.  What could we do to save our Mother Earth?  

Join me on a forest therapy session this month and let’s coming together to our home in nature for a new discovery.  

Upcoming forest therapy session 

1. 23 March 2024 at 0800-1100

2. 24 March 2024 at 1400-1700

3. 30 March 2024 at 1400-1700 (Special Event: Egg hunt in the magic forest)

4. 1 April 2024 at 10:00-13:00 (Special Event: Egg hunt in the magic forest)