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  • From: Daniel Jager <dfjager@yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] The death of the Russian village | openDemocracy ||| Abandoned village in Karelia, Russia
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:13:47 -0700 (PDT)

For 3 years I had done research in North Karelia, the Finnish 'side' of
Karelia. The landscape is almost identical to its Russian counterpart.
In the area were I did my research, there were abandoned villages just like
in the picture. Quite a few villages, however, were well maintained. And the
tiny village where the research institute was, was exceptional.
I remember the lake; lake Mekrijaervi. It had this magical view. Utter
beauty. With those intense sharp colors that only occur closer to the poles.
And it was magical no matter what time of the day you would look on her
waters, no matter the weather, and no matter the time of year.
Utterly dreary, gloomy November afternoons made light upon her faceor the
sunshine in March upon her still frozen surfaceor the early May sunlight,
crisp, above her deep blue black watersor the July thunderstorm churning up
wavesor the rainy September day, looking better than it ever would 1000 km
farther southor the reflection in her of that glow on the horizon on the
shortest night.And next to her always those massive eternal pine trees...
standing like guardians.
No wonder then that on this lake one of Finland's last most famous Rune
singers lived and died. Sissola. No prices for guessing who or what his muse
was.
It is an environment that naturally invites to contemplation. It is of such
fine, extraordinary beauty.
My favourite painter, Nikolai Roerich, Russian, lived in Karelia for a while
before he traveled and moved eastward to the Himalayas. And he was also
inspired by the beauty of Karelia as is evident from the many early paintings
he made in this region.
Such a loss. Poor Russians. Poor us.
We will have technology, we will have progress, we will have all those things
that we can conceive. But we will have not beauty, nor will we have innocence.
Sometimes I think: The savage and the wise both live in the heart of Nature.
Woe to us who are caught in between.
And: Is this madness of development actually necessary, or is there a more
direct route from savage to wise, without leaving Nature's heart?
Daniel

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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:38:30 -0400
From: "Joan Huyser-Honig" <joan@hhcreatives.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] The death of the Russian village |
    openDemocracy    ||| Abandoned village in Karelia, Russia.
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Lawrence,

Thanks for posting the link to the Pinterest photo of the abandoned village
in Russia and other abandoned human constructions. They are hauntingly
beautiful and thought provoking. They make me think of the many biblical
references about how people wither like grass and fade like flowers.

All the best,
Joan Huyser-Honig

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Subject: [permaculture] The death of the Russian village | openDemocracy |||
Abandoned village in Karelia, Russia.

The death of the Russian village | openDemocracy
http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/matilda-moreton/death-of-russian-village

Traditionally Russia?s agricultural land was subdivided into a patchwork of
villages and fields, interspersed by forest and marsh. Now the villages are
deserted and
crumbling: the state closes
them down, often on a whim, and young people leave to find work elsewhere.
Matilda Moreton tells the tragic story based on fieldwork in the Russian
North.


Abandoned village in Karelia, Russia.
http://pinterest.com/pin/108156828521860549/

One of many thousands of villages just like it scattered all across the vast
Russian territory.
This is the Russia of Andrey Rublev's peregrinations. He would feel right at
home amid this picturesque decrepitude.
Another six-seven hundred years from now -- when people of the Earth either
will have long since reverted to their cave-dwelling past as a result of a
couple of unfortunate nuclear altercations or become totally immortal and
autonomous from their bothersome bulky bodies and independent from the
shackles of geography and the basic laws of physics, having successfully
colonized most of the planets in the solar system and capable routinely of
covering in a matter of minutes the distance between their offices on the
Moon and their summer houses on ruggedly beautiful Uranus, say -- this
village, and thousands of other Russian villages like it, would still look
exactly the same.
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