“In a society that constantly pushes us to perform, we no longer know how to 'eclipse' ourselves when we feel vulnerable, taking the time we need to re-energize and to gather our strength. When we are bereaved we're told that 'life goes on.' After a heart break, 'there are plenty more fish in the sea,' or after a pet dies, 'well it was only an animal.' Life tries to push us forward, as though we don't have every right to retreat into ourselves and to be sad, mourning the fact that after a bereavement life isn't the same, or that a beloved animal will never come back...In our modern human lives, we are rarely afforded the time necessary to recover from our sadness, to nurse our wounds and to perform the necessary transformation before we re-emerge into the world.” NatureHumanism Author:Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau
“The child who stares wide-eyed at his surroundings as he travels with his parents, drinking everything in, is very likely to grow up into a footloose adult. The more he discovers, the more he will want to discover - all those thousand obscure corners of the world, all those far-off places that he could only dream of when he used to gaze at the atlas,...” NatureHumanism Author:Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau