Nature connection does this, love of sunsets, places we've traveled or lived by that our hearts and very cells reached out to and we became one with that moment and with that place.

This is something that many of us who feel deep connections to Place would relate to. At home on our coast many of us old school coast folk are crying about the development going on there because this landscape is so deeply part of our hearts. The relationship between people and place is so strong.

I love these articles Wren - I've never really studied deep ecology but as you know I have a deeply philosophical bent when it comes to the natural world, and i love the term ecosophy so much!! What an interesting wealth of thought you'd studied!!! And you write about it so well.

The identification of us with the natural world is integral to saving it. If we see others as ourselves and act compassionately due to this, then it's the same with the Earth herself. I've been thinking alot about that as the volcano erupts - i feel such a connection to this raw aliveness of the earth here, perhaps because it's in technicolour, in my face!!! But I watch the folk here with their fishing boats, the spear fisherman - there's no rape and pillage of the seas, just taking enough to survive, and a deep love of the natural environment and a reverence too.