“Our need of nature is an integral part of our humanity, and the bond that unites us with nature is never broken.” Peter Wohlleben recounts how he discovered his hidden bond with nature in The Hidden Life of Trees . The sensation sprung up unexpectedly when he was working to optimize forestry output for the lumber industry. At the time, trees were nothing more than profitable commodities for him. He recounts: One day, as I was doing my daily job across the forest, I stumbled over an old tree stump. When I examined the chunk of wood covering the ground …
Year: 2022
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras (circa 570 BC), the wise philosopher and polymath put forth that the universe as a whole was composed of harmony and numbers. The planets and stars move according to mathematical equations, their movements correspond to musical notes and that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum based on their orbital revolving. Their orbital resonance generates an inaudible symphony which he called Musica Universalis —music of the universe. The seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), inspired and intrigued …
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