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‘’Only when the last river
has been polluted, the last tree cut, the last fish caught will man realise that
he can not eat money’’…- was written on the front of an Amazonian forest
dwellers T-shirt! Which imprinted my brain during a regular health education
visit to the area. This is the
desperate truth that motivates ‘Forest Schools’ desire to find methods that
will wake up world education to act towards finding solutions for alternative
fossil fuel recourses and engaging with our environment and its problem of
depleting bio-diverse Eco systems. Its
about acknowledging self-responsibility for the privilege to be alive – rather
than the future possibility of being forced to pay taxes on the air we breath.
Forest
Schools are an exciting idea! And
one that is easily put into action, if we don’t get too bogged under with
descriptions of what they are or who founded ‘the first one’…we basically
are born on forest floors, where leaf decay (amongst other elements) has made
the earth we walk on and eventually return too…. a beautiful and peaceful
concept. A Forest School for
everyone living on the earth to engage in understanding. It is not an institution, it is beyond anthropocentrism.
Forest Schools re-light our lives towards ‘being responsible for our
daily living’, being gentle and nurturing of our environmental foundation,
which brings us wellbeing and teaches us to merge communication between ‘us’
and nature.
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