I normally take photos for my nature and humans content. But this time I wanted to share the relationship between nature and humans as a drawing and asked myself the question “How can I draw? “. 🤓 I thought of drawing a building and an animal facing it. There had to be something that caught the animal’s attention too, something to eat! 🍴This is how the giraffe appeared, staring at an ivy-covered building. 🦒 How would you describe the relationship between nature and humans? 🌱
I’m starting to write the first blog post of 2023! I wasn’t that excited when I was planning this post, but when I looked at the previous similar blog posts , that same feeling came back. As you can see in the post, there is a board. While reading , you can answer the questions that I will ask with paper and pen in any way you want, work on the same board, and/or you can place the answers by creating another board by designing it the way you like, similar to board I shared. 🤓 I used some symbols so that the questions and the board support each other, but as I wrote, you are in one of the best times to be creative. 🌟
📍 Why is the new year important?
The new year, especially the beginning of the year, is one of the most well-known times to set goals and focus on dreams. New chapters are forming in our lives, both chronologically and mentally. Of course, we may have other mile stones, but the subject of today’s post is the beginning of the year. ☺️
While determining your New Year’s goals, you can ask yourself the following questions and fill in your board. I wish you a happy new year again and I wish that the things on your board come true faster than you think. ✨🌱🌳
1. By focusing on which 6 goals/dreams will make 2023 as you want?✨
2. Other than the goals/wishes you have chosen, what would you like to accomplish as you enter 2024?🌟
2. What makes these 7 goals/dreams special from others?❤️
2. What keeps you on track in all circumstances while reaching these goals/dreams?🚲
3. What steps will you take to achieve these and when?💬
4. What will help you in taking these steps?
The world is our home and we live in this house. It is such a house that we can live with the people we love and live the way we want. The person who makes this house a home is mother nature. She is the source of compassion that gives our food and blanket. What can we do for her? How can we respond to her love?
Alignment with nature. By observing her ways of thinking and acting accordingly. We can identify steps to protect and grow her.
Maintaining balance. To live by thinking that every living creature has the same right to live and by designing our steps according to them.
Nourishing it with love. To share our love for her by showing her our support.
Nature has caught my attention lately. I believe that flowers, animals and other parts of nature significantly improve our quality of life. Recently, I watched a documentary about nature called “Kiss the Ground” on Netflix. I felt almost every emotion while watching it. While it clearly explains what wars and similar bad things take away from the world in the long run, it also tells us what solutions we can use as human beings. At the end of the documentary, I saw that nature can heal itself when we apply right agriculture methods.
What did I learn from the documentary?
Saving the world is easier than we think. Another name for soil is dirt and this dirt is vital. Humans are not that different from other animals when we look at ourselves as homosapiens. Of course, we are not the same because our evolution is different, but; we are made up of biologically similar things and we take some of our steps by listening to our primitive brain. At this point, it can be said that we are more connected to nature than we think. We even work on issues such as social inequality today due to applying wrong agriculture methods that affect nature.
When a farmer shared his business going down and meeting biodiversity, he used a word that summarizes the documentary which is biodiversity. In this article, I will not describe techniques as my aim is to share points that I liked. However, the solution is to grow more plants in the soil rather than just one type of plant. The important thing absorbing the carbon from the air rather than sending it upwards and creating global warming. One of the main causes of global climate change is the drying of the soil.
The second thing I learned is that there are beneficial techniques for this in the world right now. Many devoted people are giving seminars and training people, while others continue their work to revitalize the soil. It was hopeful to hear their experiences in the documentary.
Putting all these into consideration;
The documentary really affected me with many factors that I wrote above and couldn’t because there were many. Presenting the solution in the most simple way made it easier for me to watch. I saw that there are many ways to contribute to this culture and they are not less complicated than we assume.
Note: Anyone who has watched the documentary and wants to watch it, please share your ideas with me via serraispahani@gmail.com or Instagram.
You can watch a video about the documentary by clicking here;
Kiss the Ground: Onarıcı Tarım, https://www.netflix.com/tr/title/81321999 *
Serra İspahani 