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Table of Contents for
AquaTerra - Please see excerpts
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Forward: AquaTerra Redux
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An Ecological Heretic:
Sulak Sivaraksa on Siam Water
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The Tao of Water
Lao Tsu |
Bio What?
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Dowsing Revelations
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From Committee to Communion
Barbara Harmony |
Eureka!
C. F. Ellis, M.D. |
How to Save the World
Barbara Harmony |
Personal Testimonies of an
Ecological Kind
Barbara Harmony, David Haenke,
Ella Alford & Kim Clark |
Morning's Water (poem)
Mary Winters |
Water Living or Dead
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Hangin' with Cetaceans
Jodie Sundancer Vanderwall |
Beautiful Bulrushes,
Remarkable Reeds
Elisabet Sathouris |
Wainapanapa (poem)
Coco Gordon
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Kelp (poem)
Doug Dobyns |
Brand New Water?
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Taking the Pulse of a Creek
Ella Alford |
Kaw River (poem)
Miriam Goldberg |
The Meaning of Water
John Todd |
Moon Cycles of the Maya
Penny Rush-Valadares |
Water: Fuel of the Next
Millennium
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On the Wings of a
Red Tail Hawk
Denise Wikersham |
Standing Wave (poem)
Alice Kidd |
AquaTerra: WaterEarth (poem)
Barbara Harmony |
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"A fascinating plunge into molecular physics, Mayan
calendars, geochemistry , bioregionalism, dolphin communities, healing, hydrogen fuel,
dowsing, vortices, geophysics and other
water related topics that brings together the ideas of a wide
variety of scholars - from Kėthe Seidel, the grandmother of
modern biological wastewater treatment, and John Todd, one of its foremost current practitioners to Sulak Sivaraksa,
Thailand's ecological Buddhist philosopher - creating a timely
book for a civilization that has lost its reverence for water."
Scott Whittier Chaplin, Rocky Mountain Institute |
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AquaTerra
Excerpts
From 'An Ecological Heretic: Sulak Sivaraksa on Siam Water'
page 96 |
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In our tradition, Water is very, very important. The whole of nature
consists of the four elements, Water, Fire, Earth and Air Once these
four elements are in balance in the cosmos, natural law, our own well
being results. If they are not balanced, the end. That is why we are
brought up to respect Water. |
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The river is our Mother Water. Like the Earth, Air, Fire, they are all
our Mother. Once you pay close respect to the four elements, I think
they will help replenish you. And of course at the same time, it is
essential that sometime we harm them, knowingly and unknowingly. |
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For most people, if you live by the water, you pollute the water. For
the Buddhist Monks, it is not possible to pollute the water. The monks
are not allowed to cut trees, not allowed to till the land; they have
no profession. If their lifestyle is not worth it, they will die
because they do not earn a living. That's why we offer them food, we
offer them clothing, we offer them shelter and medicine. |
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For most of us that have professions, we have to cut trees, we have to
clear the land, and sometimes we have to pollute the water. But
knowing that, you have ask for forgiveness from Water. If you have to
polluted it too much, it will be bad for you, bad for the Mother
Water. Being aware sometimes, we pollute the water. I think that
that's essential. But ask for forgiveness, ask for cleansing - Water
cleansing you and you cleansing the Water. |
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In our religion during the full moon of the month of November, we
float candles on the water, asking the Mother Water to forgive us for
polluting her..... |
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From 'Beautiful Bulrushes, Remarkable Reeds' - page 86 |
In Brazil we demonstrated that hot and highly acid wastewater from a
eucalyptus sawmill could be recycled through plants. We could not find
the reeds there, but found other plants that also work. There is so
much that can be done. All normal wastewater from human habitations
can easily be directed into small streams planted with rushes or reeds
and reclaimed at least for agriculture. Pathogenic bacteria are so
quickly and easily destroyed.......
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From 'Committee to Communion' - page 105 |
My experiences of direct communications with the Water began at the
fourth North American Bioregional Congress in 1990 in the Kennebec
River Watershed on the Gulf of Main. When the Water committee met on a
dock at Lake Cobboseecontee, I
informed them after eleven years of working on Water issues, I was frustrated by
the enormity of the problems. I felt like bursting into tears or
screaming when I heard unending stories about sitting landfills on the headwaters of the river or
constructing a sewage treatment plant on another pristine creek. I couldn't sit and talk about these atrocities.
The other members of the Water Committee where sympathetic and
it was agreed that we should give thanks to Water.
Barbara Harmony
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