Earth Moves Cooperative
Earth Moves Events
What we do and say spirals out into the world
Join us! Everyone is welcome. We are a safe space for people of all types who want to participate in democratic, grassroots activities and grow together. Express environmental concerns beyond the usual rhetoric. Gardening, wellbeing and transformational events. Connecting, restoring, transforming!
"Permaculture as a design system contains nothing new. It arranges what was always there in a different way, so that it works to conserve energy or to generate more energy than it consumes. What is novel, and often overlooked, is that any system of total common-sense design for human communities is revolutionary!" Bill Mollison
“Where there is no heart, there is no art.” – Anna Pavlova
Permaculture is to ecology, and engineering is to physics; Both apply the fundamental patterns and principles found in nature to solving challenges in the human world. The sheer diversity of applications is another parallel between both disciplines. Tomas Remiarz
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?”― R. Buckminister Fuller
Everyone is great, because everyone can serve. Martin Luther King
Audrey Hepburn: "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow".
Transforming Land Transforming People
Mahatma Gandhi: "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves".
Nature is around us and wthin us
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol.
We Are Stronger Together
“Everything in the universe is within you. Rumi
Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let It Begin With Me
“It is a general truth that the Earth is depreciated and misunderstood… For quite long enough, we have been taught that this life is not the real thing… and that we live only for heaven.” Jung
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha
Peace on Earth!
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”— Robert Swan.
“Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.” —Aboriginal Proverb
'What is good for the bee is good for the hive'. Marcus Aurelius
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.”Marcus Aurelius.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung.
Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished. —Lao Tzu
'Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.' Keats
Value the Marginal!
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
'Be the change you seek'. Ghandi
”Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change.'' Greta Thunberg.
Value the edges. The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place.
You win I win!
Biodiversity and people diversity make all of us more resilient.
We all have to be involved to create the change that is needed.
''Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world''. Lao Tzu
'No tree would have branches that are so foolish that they fight with each other'. Native American saying
''For us, the world was full of beauty; for the other, it was a place to be endured until he went to another world.
But we were wise. We knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard.” Chief Luther Standing Bear
''Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better''.
Albert Einstein
We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change because if we fail to do so then all our achievements and progress have been for nothing. All that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure in human history."
Greta Thunberg
''You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer ''. Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only thing to replace the rotten financial system with is a green economy. The green economy is actually designed to create wealth opportunities; it’s actually designed to create liberty, equality, fraternity. What nature gives you is free, and no one should privately own it. That’s the end of it.”
Vivian Westwood
“Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.” Vandana Shiva
You are nature!
“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” — Vicki Baum
''Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember that we are cells in your body and dance together'' Starhawk
“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.” Geoff Lawton
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch
"Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." Jung
''Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received–only what you have given.” St Francis of Asissi
“The idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology … is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth’s goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry at every limit.” Pope Francis
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.” — Agnes de Mille
A permaculture economy is one whereby people are inclusively participating in productivity and equitably sharing in profits. Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy
We are stronger together.
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.' Ru Paul
A new world is possible!
I am what I am and what I am needs no excuses!
Earth care, People Care, Fair Share, Future Care
Learning from from each other, growing together.
'''In my world I will be in charge and so will you. '' Matarmy Hudson
Contact us to get involved!
"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul." - George Bernard Shaw
All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.
Prince Charles
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the tapestry threads are equal in value no matter what their color.” Maya Angelou
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. WILLIAM BLAKE
Be the beauty you love... Rumi
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. John Dee
Planting seeds and growing together!
'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin'. Shakespeare
Improving our wellbeing together,
“When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.” ~ Alex Grey
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.” ― Rudyard Kipling,
'See the Lilies, they neither toil nor spin'. Jesus.
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ― William Blake
“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Pablo Picasso
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”― Jalaluddin Rumi,
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ― Martha Graham
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth since we are made of earth and rain.” ― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta
