Metta Earth Institute


wilderness awareness · conservation · restoration

With this focus we embrace a commitment to protect wilderness environments, wild lands, and wildlife corridors through conservation and restoration endeavors. Agricultural efforts integrate the notions of preserving wildness with food growing by establishing the “wildfarm”. We also honor the indigenous arts of herbal wisdom, sustainable wildcrafting, and traditional earth skills to strengthen our wilderness awareness and awaken our sense of interconnection and interdependence with all of life. Retreats, quests, and pilgrimage walks energize the dedication to living lightly and quietly on the earth.

Only in silence
the word
Only in darkness
the light
Bright the hawk’s flight
On the empty sky.

~ Ursula LeGuinn