Now is the time to put your skepticism aside, just a for a second.
It’s okay, it will still be there when you get back. Buy it a hot chocolate, give it a magazine and tell it you’ll be just be a moment.
There are a million and one blogs, articles, tv shows and books out there to tell us how to care for the environment. What many do not address is the fundamental shift in consciousness required before anyone cares to begin with.
Undeniably there is a groundswell in interest and attention on global change around environmental issues and living in a “green” or “eco” way. For this I am so grateful. What this means is that when I talk to the stranger at the cafe about my garden, or no longer using plastic bags or bottles, they don’t necessarily look at me like I’m a radical militant greenie. Great.
The thing that is often overlooked is the simple principle of love. We are what we love, not what loves us. This message comes clearly through so many life-altering films and books and parables. When someone close to us dies, we often remark about how we wished we’d said we loved them more often, spent more time, had more fun.
It’s the same with being green and caring for the environment. If we don’t love our garden, it literally will not bear fruit.
So today, for me, green means love (as it happens to also mean in many spiritual modalities and colour therapies).
I love my garden, I love trees and native animals and nice weather. It is out of that love that I can be bothered to read about how to care for the environment.
So my advice to anyone that asks would definitely be to get out there and get into it, find joy in your garden, your bushwalk, the tree outside your house and local birds, whatever tickles you pinky-green.
If we start to love the environment we live in, we will naturally want to take care of it – much as we take care of the people and things we already love in our lives.
Enough scaremongering and de-sensitising, let’s really feel the natural world and fall in love again.
Because we are what we love, tell the environment you love it, spend more time with it, and have more fun being green.
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