Over the last few hundred years, we began to see ourselves as separate from the natural world — masters of it, rather than participants in it.
We built systems that prize speed above all else, and in doing so, we lost the most fundamental lesson that nature teaches: speed of growth makes you fragile. The tree that shoots up fastest is the first to fall in a storm. The invasive species that spreads the quickest chokes out everything around it and then collapses when conditions change.
The ecosystems that endure — the ones that survive fire and drought and ice — are the ones that grew slowly, developed deep root systems, and built interdependence with the living things around them.
Info & reflection: It matters to me to find a real connection with nature again