The poet Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s quote ‘Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction’ is the subject of my submission to OEG. This ongoing project explores what the quote may have been referring to, in the sense that nature, even in the face of adversity with increasing fears of the impact of global climate change being recognized by wider communities, has continued to pursue its existence all around us. We are all collectively at a point where our ability to embrace nature’s function in balancing our society and world can no longer futuristically fall by the wayside without considering the extreme circumstances with which it still finds a way to evolve alongside us. Although his quote is unexplained it represents for me the failure by us to truly endorse nature’s survival. We need to reflect and process in minutiae the impact of global climate change and in doing so examine the small changes that occur throughout nature’s seasonal year, respectively.

These macro images submitted capture a moment in time that will inevitably disappear as nature’s own time clock advances, and if we are to truly acknowledge the continuing impact of global climate change and its effect on weather patterns perhaps by examining the smaller details of nature we will be in a better position to understand and embrace the true meaning of Goethe’s quote, allowing us to ethically and morally live and work alongside nature in reclaiming back our earth.

By Ann Petruckevitch