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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Eucalyptus Grove


Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Friiz Pearls1

There's a eucalyptus grove on the UC Berkeley campus. Every semester I take my students there on a march across the campus. It's a march, it's a dialogue. Like the walking philosophers in ancient Athens. Best to visit that Eucalyptus grove in the late afternoon. While we dialogue on truth and justice and the environment, the sun slowly sets down. The day's natural cycle now apparent - light streaming through the trees. How can students "know" the earth if they are always encased in technology's air conditioned classrooms with florescent lights. Just think – to study the environment in a classroom is shear abstraction. Get out of the classroom! Walk outside like the ancients and the aborigines. Feel the earth below, the sky above, and the body breathing and moving. Feel the life all around and within.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

tat tavam asi
thank you, professor

ChelseaThompson_TravelBlog said...

My favorite part of the class so far has been around the grove. Thank you!!!