(I read an article on the environment
by Lyall Watson recently. The following is an extract from it. I thought I
should share it with you)
Without wind, most of Earth would be uninhabitable.
The tropics would grow so unbearably hot that nothing could live there, and the
rest of the planet would freeze. Moisture, if any existed, would be confined to
the oceans; and all but the fringes of the great continents … would be desert.
There would be no erosion, no soil, and for any community that managed to evolve
despite these rigours, no relief from suffocation by their own waste products.
But with the wind, Earth comes truly alive. Winds
provide the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing out energy
and information, distributing both warmth and awareness, making something out
of nothing.
All wind’s properties are borrowed. Our knowledge of
it comes at second-hand, but it comes strongly. And this combination of a force
that cannot be apprehended, but nonetheless has an undeniable existence, was our
first experience of the spiritual. A crack in the cosmos that widened to let
the tide of consciousness flow through.
We are the fruits of the wind—and have been seeded,
irrigated, and cultivated by its craft.
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