Look at the colour of this water. It’s an amazing colour isn’t it?
Why is it that colour? It’s the effect of all the leaves on the trees of the forest through which the stream is flowing. On another day, in another season, this very water (well, actually, this very stream, not this very water!), looks an entirely different colour. In fact, a few hours earlier, or a few hours later, it looks completely different.
This got me thinking. Not just thinking how beautiful it is. It is stunningly beautiful. But how change is a such a constant, and, how whatever we see is the result of many factors, and how everything needs to be understood in it’s context, and how nothing can be reduced to some simple set of data, or simple description, without, in fact, obscuring its reality.
Maybe it’s just the way my mind works, but it also got me thinking about the interactions between the environment and the elements of the environment. I’ve just taken out a subscription to a new journal titled Ecopsychology. I’ve never come across this term before, but its the area of study which looks at the interactions between behaviour and the environment. I love it when I come across these whole new fields of human exploration and knowledge.
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Very fascinating stuff, and another extraordinary shot!
Lovely image …….reminds me of a book of Ted Hughes poems ‘River’….
Thanks for the ecopsych link —really intersting especially the Rob Greenway article . He writes – in respect to dualism and current environmental issues.
‘ As a student of metaphor I am a believer in the immense power – not just utility , but the creative power of words , symbols and narratives to heal the dualistic programme and he goes on to say ……I feel that language is central to an ecopsychology that will not reflect cultural programmes that get us into this fix , but will provide tools for recovery. Language can do that, but most likely it will be poetic and musical langugae that is needed.’
I think reflecting on visual images may shift perspective too and this may be one advantage to going out in the Scottish climate where light and colour are never the same a few hours apart ( a blessing and a curse).