How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

by Marc Hamer

People talk of the fight for survival, but it is not a fight, it is a conversation. There’s a negotiation that goes on.

Submission rarely works when confronted by aggressive creatures or humans, but when it comes to bad weather the only thing to be done is to avoid or submit.

Buy the best and most expensive ones that you can find. Killing a living thing should not be cheap or slow.

BUDDHISTS SAY THAT life is full of sadness and the only way to live with it is through compassion. They say that we should feel both sadness and joy in everything we do.

Compassion is born at the interaction between joy and sadness. Compassion for your own life, forgiveness for your own mistakes, is the foundation.

Things cannot be made as they were, but they can become something else. They can be re-made.

Everything has its end and each thing carries the beginning of the next thing.

Healing is not about re-making things as they once were, healing is about acceptance and forgiveness and love and growth and beginning again. Sc...

Imagination is of great importance when hunting a mole, but it needs to be unclear and uncertain for it to be of any use.

Suddenly, as life has become clearly shorter, we have more time. I can allow things to show themselves as they are, rather than trying to bend them to my will.

The small things are the things which in their millions make the world work.