{"id":38135,"date":"2025-04-07T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/when-sadness-strikes-i-remember-im-not-alone-in-loving-the-wild-boundless-beauty-of-the-living-world-georgina-woods\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:27:34","slug":"when-sadness-strikes-i-remember-im-not-alone-in-loving-the-wild-boundless-beauty-of-the-living-world-georgina-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/when-sadness-strikes-i-remember-im-not-alone-in-loving-the-wild-boundless-beauty-of-the-living-world-georgina-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"When sadness strikes I remember I\u2019m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world | Georgina Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature will reclaim its place as a terrifying quasi-divine force that cannot be mastered. I find this strangely comforting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore the series \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/last-chance\">Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/10\/sign-up-for-the-clear-air-australia-environment-newsletter-with-adam-morton\">Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s Clear Air column as an email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At times my work takes me to the big city and the tall buildings where people with power make decisions that affect the rest of us. While I am there, crossing busy roads, wearing tidy clothes and carrying out my duty, I think of faraway places where life is getting on without me.<\/p>\n<p>Logrunners are turning leaf litter on the rainforest floor, albatross are cruising the wind beyond sight of the coast. Why does thinking about these creatures, who have no idea that I exist, bring me such comfort?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/10\/sign-up-for-the-clear-air-australia-environment-newsletter-with-adam-morton\">Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s Clear Air column as an email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/08\/when-sadness-strikes-i-remember-im-not-alone-in-loving-the-wild-boundless-beauty-of-the-living-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature will reclaim its place as a terrifying quasi-divine force that cannot be mastered. I find this strangely comforting Explore the series \u2013 Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s Clear Air column as an email At times my work takes me to the big city &#8230; <a title=\"When sadness strikes I remember I\u2019m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world | Georgina Woods\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/when-sadness-strikes-i-remember-im-not-alone-in-loving-the-wild-boundless-beauty-of-the-living-world-georgina-woods\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about When sadness strikes I remember I\u2019m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world | Georgina Woods\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}