Parrots are birds which do not build nests, but instead use cavities and consider these their only territory during breeding season. The rest of the year they can often be seen in large flocks sitting on trees which they treat as open spaces for social interaction very much like humans would go about a public park or a camp ground. The tree is for us not only a symbol for a common space in which we can freely and respectfully interact, but also an analogy for our home, planet earth.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman wrote that “In a system there are no side effects – just effects, anticipated or not. What we see as “side effects” simply reflects our flawed understanding of the system. In a complex system cause and effect may be more distant in time and space than we realize. […] Much of the time people attribute what happens to them to events close in time and space, when in reality it’s the result of the dynamics of the larger system within which they are embedded. […] At one time, the survival of human groups depended on ecological attunement. Today we have the luxury of living well using artificial aids. Or seem to have the luxury. For the same attitudes that have made us reliant on technology have lulled us into indifference to the state of the natural world – at our peril.
Educator Sir Ken Robinson once said that “We are currently facing the two biggest crisis in the history of our planet: the crisis of human resources, and the crisis of natural resources. Both crisis are just as severe, have the same origin and need to be addressed with the same seriousness.”
If you to spend your time at the Parrot Tree you will increase your awareness of the systems which truly matter: your own, your family and mother earth.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman wrote that “In a system there are no side effects – just effects, anticipated or not. What we see as “side effects” simply reflects our flawed understanding of the system. In a complex system cause and effect may be more distant in time and space than we realize. […] Much of the time people attribute what happens to them to events close in time and space, when in reality it’s the result of the dynamics of the larger system within which they are embedded. […] At one time, the survival of human groups depended on ecological attunement. Today we have the luxury of living well using artificial aids. Or seem to have the luxury. For the same attitudes that have made us reliant on technology have lulled us into indifference to the state of the natural world – at our peril.
Educator Sir Ken Robinson once said that “We are currently facing the two biggest crisis in the history of our planet: the crisis of human resources, and the crisis of natural resources. Both crisis are just as severe, have the same origin and need to be addressed with the same seriousness.”
If you to spend your time at the Parrot Tree you will increase your awareness of the systems which truly matter: your own, your family and mother earth.