đź‘Ť On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 at 08:16, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > -- > *Mar*Below is a *Nature–Sage Manifesto* written in a prophetic, > ecological, and emotionally intelligent voice. It rejects Cartesian > separation and mechanical domination, and restores nature as teacher, kin, > and sacred presence. > > It is meant to be read slowly—like one walks through a forest. > ------------------------------ > 🌿 *THE NATURE–SAGE MANIFESTO* *A Declaration of Learning, Living, and > Becoming in the Biosphere* *1. We Begin by Listening* > > We are born into a world already speaking. > The wind speaks in pressures. > The trees speak in scents. > The soil speaks in memory. > Animals speak in rhythms. > Light speaks in warmth. > > A sage is not one who commands nature, > but one who listens with the whole body— > skin, breath, heartbeat, emotion. > ------------------------------ > *2. We Admit Our Forgetting* > > We forgot that we are participants, not observers. > We forgot that knowledge does not descend from machines or laboratories > alone, > but rises from the earth’s quiet teachings— > from wet leaves and morning air, > from bird calls before sunrise, > from the unhurried logic of rivers. > > We forgot, and therefore we became anxious. > Fear fills the spaces where nature is excluded. > ------------------------------ > *3. We Renounce the Mechanical Worldview* > > The Nature-Sage rejects the doctrine that: > > - > > life is resource, > - > > land is property, > - > > the earth is raw material, > - > > forests are commodities, > - > > rivers are equations, > - > > and that the mind floats above the body. > > We reject the empire of economics that feeds on the Biosphere. > We reject the education that amputates students from the living world. > > We choose the emotional, relational, thermodynamic paradigm of life. > We choose participation over domination. > ------------------------------ > *4. Nature Is the First and Last University* > > The oldest teacher is sunlight. > The first textbook is the leaf. > The original classroom is the forest. > > Every organism is a professor of survival, harmony, and adaptation: > > - > > Trees teach patience. > - > > Birds teach presence. > - > > Ants teach discipline. > - > > Rivers teach surrender. > - > > Elephants teach memory. > - > > Grass teaches resilience. > - > > Stones teach stillness. > > A Nature-Sage learns by coexisting, not by dissecting. > ------------------------------ > *5. Emotion Is Not Weakness; It Is Ecological Intelligence* > > Fear, joy, sorrow, gentleness, awe— > these are not “subjective states.” > They are feedback loops of the Biosphere. > They are how the body responds to the world’s signals. > > Suppressed emotion is suppressed ecological awareness. > A Nature-Sage feels deeply because feeling is knowing. > ------------------------------ > *6. We Recognize the Divine as the Macro-Nature* > > God is not above nature but expressed through it. > Divinity is the synergy of relationships— > the quiet exchange of photons, > the scent of a flower carried by an evening wind, > the pulse of life that binds all creatures. > > To protect nature is to protect the divine. > To destroy nature is an act of spiritual vandalism. > ------------------------------ > *7. We Declare a New Kind of Freedom* > > Freedom is not the ability to exploit. > Freedom is the ability to *belong without fear.* > > We seek: > > - > > forests free from human tampering, > - > > rivers free to flow, > - > > animals free to behave as animals, > - > > soil free to breathe, > - > > humans free to unlearn anxiety. > > A Nature-Sage refuses the cages of productivity. > ------------------------------ > *8. We Honor Symbiotic Humility* > > Humans are not apex predators of meaning. > We are not the masters of the Biosphere. > We are apprentices in a vast, ongoing symphony of life. > > Humility is not self-reduction—it is alignment with truth. > > To kneel before a tree is not submission; > it is remembering who taught us to breathe. > ------------------------------ > *9. We Create Sanctuaries of Untampered Nature* > > A Nature-Sage calls for *Free Nature Parks*: > places where humans do not impose, excavate, build, or rearrange— > places where we enter with reverence, > without tools of extraction, > without the violence of curiosity. > > Here, education flows without syllabus. > Here, revelations arrive without warning. > Here, consciousness travels without needing technology. > ------------------------------ > *10. We Become the Forest Again* > > Ultimately, to be a Nature-Sage is not to retreat from the world, > but to re-enter the world in its original rhythm. > > We become slow like trees, > attentive like animals, > fluid like rivers, > open like sky. > > We return to the Biosphere as coherent threads, > not foreign knots. > > When humans become forest-like, > the world heals. > ------------------------------ > 🌱 *THE OATH OF THE NATURE–SAGE* > > > > > > > > > *I choose the living world as my teacher. I choose emotion as my compass. > I choose humility as my posture. I choose participation over domination. I > choose reverence over consumption. I choose to protect the divine expressed > as nature. I choose to live as a porous, feeling, learning being within the > great Body of the Earth.* > > This is the vow. > This is the path. > This is the return. > ------------------------------ > > If you'd like, I can also create: > > 🌿 a shorter version for public display > 🔥 a poetic chant version for recitation > 🌱 a version written as ancient scripture > 🌳 a version written as a charter for a real ecological university > > Just tell me which one you want next. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thatha_Patty" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJ90rSP1K14_n7uQOPHaKSqKr36TEK-1ZYOcPLHxU%3Dqjg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJ90rSP1K14_n7uQOPHaKSqKr36TEK-1ZYOcPLHxU%3Dqjg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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