GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY 🫶🌱💦 It’s a fucking understatement to sa..

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY 🫶🌱💦
It’s a fucking understatement to say a lot has changed in the last few generations.😛 A hundred years ago, if you lived outside of a dense city centre, you probably had connections to the land one way or another. You lived rurally or your backyard more than likely had a veggie patch.🌱 Today, you’d be lucky to find a vegetable growing in suburbia with backyards of domesticated grass, entertainment areas and swimming pools.🏠 Our connection to the land is now the supermarket.🏪🙁

Does this matter? Of course it fucking does.😝 It’s not so much we’re all part of Mother Gaia bullshit – we were hunter gatherers🏹 a shit load longer than we’ve been growing crops – but more about losing a link with the world🌏, robbing ourselves of a great source of joy.😢

Ok, I know, the modern world brings a lot of advantages🔬🧪, but as philosopher Henry Thoreau claimed back in the 1850s, the luxuries of modern life might be actually getting in the fucking way of things.🛑 The reason for this, the legendary Thoreau says, is because appreciating nature just comes naturally - we simply feel it💞 - while material man-made things only have the value people place on them🤏. We may believe owning something like a car or house is necessary, but these may be the crappy things entrapping us and stopping us from properly connecting with the world🚧. And what happens if this shit continues? We start to get the wrong idea of reality, start to disconnect from it, and bring on a numbness caused by not being moved by the beauty around us.😭

Thoreau didn’t mean ‘pack your fucking bags and live in nature’ bullshit.⛺ Life in nature, in the raw, is what Thomas Hobbes, another legend philosopher, described as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.⚠️☠️ But there is a balance.⚖️ We can’t help but learn from nature🔍 – we are hardwired into that shit🧬 – but you have to let nature in to do it.❤️ Grow some veggies, join a community garden, have pot-plants🪴, buy an aquarium, do whatever you can to bring some of the natural world into your material world. This even makes you a better person because your values don’t all come from man-made crap. 🤔 And best of all, when you open yourself up to the beauty of the natural world, you feel fucking good😁, and it may even inspire you to make change.🤩 All out of nothing really. Just looking at the world around us.👀 And that’s why hanging with nature is sexy as fuck. 🍂🍆🫦