Geology for Global Development

Environmental Symphonies

Environmental Symphonies

Unlike the more typical content, this blog post does not consider our earth’s environment as a challenge to overcome, or a risk, but guides us in using its landscape as a mental resource. Join Cecilia in her reflections on the landscape of Mount Fuji and let her help you to access the wonders of nature indoors.

Take a moment to think about a piece of artwork that speaks to you. A piece that immediately stops you in your tracks and demands that you notice it. It calls you with its beauty, its timelessness and its magic. In that moment, it sees you, it holds you, it understands you and it is perfection on earth.

It is so perfect; it is easy not to see the underlying story and process this piece of art went through to reach that point of emotional calling and perfection. A process that in fact, most likely, was a total mess. Beyond the art gallery, the film screening, the photography exhibition or the debut concert, we do not see the state of the artist’s studio, the filmmaker’s countless retakes, the painstaking number of photographic edits or the musician playing deep into the night, constantly recomposing that final verse.

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