Vicki Fraser

“We lavish tremendous concern and care on scenery but we ignore the ravaging of environments from which our lives are drawn”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem

“When we don’t feel connected to a place, it becomes anonymous, and that anonymity is what allows us to be so destructive: we believe we don’t have to care about something we know nothing about. We depersonalize the land and then simply take what we want from it, thinking there won’t be any consequences. But when we do this, we’re actually destroying our own life-support system.”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem

“Numerous animals, from Douglas squirrels to an assortment of tiny insects, as well as mosses, lichens, ferns, and other plants and fungi, all make their homes in living Douglas fir trees. When one of these mighty trees dies and falls to the forest floor, it becomes a nurse log—that is, a huge decaying hunk of wood that feeds countless living beings with its fibers and the nutrients therein. A tree sucks up a lot of resources in its lifetime, and when it dies, all those resources are released back into the ecosystem at large to be used by other beings.”
― Lupa, Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up: Connect with Totems in Your Ecosystem