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May 9, 2020
"Our broken forest is in our hearts and in our children's tears" --Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Diana Beresford-Kroeger: The Call of the Trees
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author (and now filmmaker). She is known for her extraordinary ability to translate scientific complexities of nature for the general public with both precision and poetry. "If you speak for the trees, you speak for all of nature", says Beresford-Kroeger, one of the world's leading expert on trees. She has studied the environmental, medicinal, and even spiritual aspects of trees, has written about them in leading books, and maintains gardens on her property that burst with flora. From a very young age, she understood she was the last voice to bring Celtic knowledge to the New World. Orphaned at age 11 in Ireland, she lived with elders who taught her the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul, all rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality.
BE THE CHANGE
Indulge your body, mind and soul in the gift of forest-bathing. Take a walk amongst some old trees native to your place in the world. It could be in your immediate neighbourhood, a public park, or if you are lucky to live close enough to one, a nature reserve. Give thanks to the trees and commit to heeding their call!
