CHRISSIE WILDWOOD

Author and Freelance Health Writer (UK)

Chrissie Wildwood is the author of many articles and books on aromatherapy, herbal medicine and associated healing arts. Her passion is the conservation and sustainable cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants, many of which have have become threatened in the wild due to indiscriminate wild harvesting. Her work at this time is devoted to raising awareness of our reciprocal relationship with the living Earth and our responsibilities as custodians. By doing our utmost to help protect species, fragile ecosystems and the traditional ways of indigenous peoples, not only do we benefit ourselves, but also future generations of people, plants and all other life-forms.



In the end we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught.

- Baba Dioum



Ultimately, deep ecological awareness is spiritual awareness.

- Fritjof Capra



Natural life is the nourishing soil of the soul.

- C.G. Jung

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts there is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

- Rachel Carson

I am the breeze that nurtures all things green.
I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits.
I am the rain coming from the dew
That causes the grasses to laugh
With the joy of life

- Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night.
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

- W.B. Yeats, 'The Two Trees'