“People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are too naive, like children, and it is necessary to tell them the facts of life, so to speak—to make it plain to them that they are human beings like all others.”—C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

  A people and its culture are born and develop on a specific land. They have their roots in that land and if the soil is fertile enough grow like a plant from it. 

  But millennia ago some humans learned another way of associating, always on the land but removed or cut off increasingly from it. We built and became citizens of towns and then cities. You could say (and it has been said) that we left or were kicked out of the Garden that symbolized our close identity with the land. 

  Once in cities we told and were told a great many stories but the stories no longer told of our oneness with the land but of our separateness and even our dominion over the land. 

  Today more than half of us humans on planet earth live in cities. How can that possibly be good for us? 

  And who is there to speak or sing of our lost connection the land and to the Oneness of Nature?

  And a pathway back?