Ep. 27: "Sharing Personal Thoughts"

This is a personal episode, an opportunity that I'm taking to share with you some personal thoughts about the practice of rewilding, of connecting to Nature, and the cyclical nature of our world. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Truth be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of personal rewilding. If you're like me, you probably
sit sometimes and think, how did we get here? How
did we become a society that was so far removed
from nature that we failed to understand the necessity of

(00:31):
having a relationship with the natural world. How did we
become a society that was so preoccupied with resources and
exploitation that we haven't noticed that we were destroying the
world around us, the very thing that is required for
us to continue living. And new studies suggest that this

(00:56):
is not new, that the damage and this kind of
capitalist ideation of resources and exploitation goes back hundreds of years,
that we have gone through these waves of destruction in
the name of expansion and growth, and then kind of

(01:19):
come to our senses for a little while, right, and
we start to work in the realms of preservation, conservation,
saving the planet, and then we fall into this trap again.
So it's this cycle, and that the only difference is
that in the past there were fewer people globally, and

(01:41):
also a lack of understanding and a lack of technology
to be able to find measurable results to tell us
that we were doing damage that would take hundreds of
years to fix. Right. So if we look back to
the eighteen twenties, right, look at the Transcendental movement. This

(02:03):
is a school of thought again, people understanding that there
was a need for them. It was more spiritual, maybe
definitely mental. Maybe they didn't understand exactly the physical benefits
of connecting with the natural world, but they definitely understood
that there was a need for a connection with nature. Right.

(02:23):
That's a huge part of the Transcendental movement. And then
if we look again moving forward, we see the Industrial Revolution.
We see the exploitation of the Appalachian Mountain chain, right,
the forests along the east coast being decimated by the

(02:43):
end of the eighteen hundreds, where everything had been clear
cut twice, streams and waterways were polluted from strip mining,
and that an entire region of our country was stripped
of its natural resources and had to be rebuilt in
order for life to continue here. So we're thinking about

(03:06):
those things now and the way that how did they
not see or think about what they were doing at
that time? And again, in the name of progress, you
know people can sometimes become very shortsighted and narrow focused.
We know that this is just the way of the world.

(03:28):
And I think that for me today, having these thoughts
of how did we get here and how do we
get people on board to start thinking about how to
rectify the situation, I just hope that we're potentially on

(03:50):
an upswing of this cycle where people kind of globally
commit to something greater than what we are doing right now,
and that we start taking some larger making larger moves
right painting with broader brushstrokes, if you will, to really

(04:14):
try to protect the green space, the natural spaces that
we have. Again, we cannot as a species, right, Humankind
cannot exist without the natural world. Right. If we took
ourselves out of the picture, right, trees, plants, animals, everything

(04:35):
continues without us, Everything goes back to normal, The earth
will heal itself. Right. But if we as a species
decimate everything else, if we take away all the trees,
if we take away the green spaces, if we run
other animals into the point of extinction, our world will change,
and not for the better. And that's a really skin thought,

(05:01):
and I don't like to dwell on it. I don't
want to post this particular episode thinking that people will
have a moment of fear or doubt or begin to
get anxious or nervous or experience rage, although I do
hope that people will hear this and experience something, some emotion,
something that will drive them to think about how they

(05:22):
might take steps in their own communities as stewards to
provide care for the natural world and their own environments.
That they might reach out and connect with other people
who feel the same way, to start small grassroots movements
in their own regions to help mitigate the damage that

(05:45):
is being done industrially. And yeah, I just thought that
this was an important conversation to have today, So I
thank you for listening, and I hope that you will
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(06:07):
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I'm working on, please feel free to visit my website

(06:28):
at www dot rh Nature reconnect dot com. Again, that's
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to hearing from you until next time.