Loving Nature

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Thoreau referred to the “wild and dusky knowledge” that is ours when we communicate with the whole earth intimately: “this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society… The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knowledge, gramatica parda, ‘tawny grammar,’ a kind of mother-wit…” The knowing of wild dusk, the hearing of the intimate language accessible in the recesses of our hearts — this is the mother-wit of the fool, our wit, and perhaps the only path of honest practice.

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Source: Excerpted from the article Song of Fools featured in the Mountain Record Journal, Spring 2001