Earthy Spirit

Tag: travel

  • Ancient Trees-the oldest organisms on Earth

    Trees are among the oldest living organisms on Earth; some standing for more than five thousand years. Rising during the late Neolithic period, alongside humanity’s earliest civilisations, with the invention of writing, and the first metal tools and bronze weapons. Their first leaves unfurled from pods, cones, seeds, winged seeds, hard-shelled nuts, fruits, and spiny…

  • Orchids and Wildflowers of Crete

    On Crete, where mountains soar, and the land unfolds into wild gorges, sweeping plains and tranquil meadows, orchids emerge like delicate enchantments of colour and wonder. Seventy species bloom across the island, fourteen of them found nowhere else on earth, each carrying a whisper of myth. One ancient tale tells of Orchis, a handsome wild…