autumn... a time of foraging for berries... cooking on fires and sharing stories... gathering precious fallen leaves... sunlight filtering through orange-gold trees... finding birch twigs which glow with purple hues...
“The Chinese count wood as
the fifth element, and Jung considered trees an archetype. Nothing can compete with these
larger-than-life organisms for signalling the changes in the natural world. They are our barometers of the weather and
the changing seasons. We tell the time
of year by them. Trees have the
capacity to rise to the heavens and to connect us to the sky, to endure, to
renew, to bear fruit, and to burn and warm us through the winter.”
Roger Deakin - ‘Wildwood’
Roger Deakin - ‘Wildwood’