Spiritual Reflections on the Natural World – Ecology Spaces in China
By Dan Troy
July 16, 2024
During three ecology workshops given in China by the Irish geologist and botanist John Feehan between 2014 and 2018, an emphasis was placed on combining personal experience with scientific learning and prayerful reflection. Personal experience involved going outdoors each day to observe nearby geological formations as well as looking at the marvels of wildflowers and other features of the natural world. In looking at the wildflowers, we were asked to consider the marvelous ways in which these flowers live within a series of mysterious relationships that require a moth or a bee to complete a pollination cycle so that the next generation of flowers can emerge a year later.