An invitation: toward a new alliance with nature

Plants are not background, but protagonists of life on Earth. This essay traces the long history of ecological thinking that puts the relationship between living things at the center, starting with plant intelligence. A political and cultural invitation to rethink our place in nature-not above, but within it.

We take the liberty of starting from the coclusion of Fabrizio Baldassarri’s article for l’Indiscreto that goes to the roots of the motivations behind the founding of WWOOF Italy.

“Radical environmental policies-no political color or party division-are needed: it is time for our country’s ruling classes to resecological posts to the call of associations and citizens about an environmental management of public affairs. And this response must take into account a necessary and deeper alliance with nature, which is not just a set of resources to be exploited, but a relationship. It is not just about forest bathing, that is, embracing nature to care for oneself, because this implies a continuous separation between human life and nature, but it is necessary to rethink the architecture of human society through the relationship with nature, following nature itself.

This step is possible. It is up to us to want to take it, taking up the invitation Of nature to a deep and fruitful relationship.”

This step is possible. It is up to us to want to take it, taking up the invitation Of nature to a deep and fruitful relationship.”