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.
Heroes Not Zombies 