I do not observe Earth Day. Not out of indifference, but because my cultural roots, my ancestral tradition, do not separate the honoring of land into a single designated moment. I am Breizh, from a Celtic people of Brittany whose relationship with the living world is not an occasion but a foundation. That relationship was not given to us by an environmental movement. It preceded one, and it will outlast the next. Every emergence, every season, every shift in what the land is doing carries more information than any symbolic calendar date. It makes sense that with time, I became a phenologist, a keeper of time.
When attention to the natural world is genuine, it cannot be scheduled.
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