Tips, recommendations, threats, collaborations, hopes for better times in a trio of novellas starring retirees Franco and Emil.This is a fantastic tale of how humans and nature can work together to manage the Earth. In this case, it is about water. The story takes place around a small area with a dry wadi, which can turn into a raging torrent during torrential rains.That is the outer side of the story.What matters to the collaborating people in this fiction is that nature itself gets a say. Globally, this already happens here and there, but nature’s interests are represented there by humans.It is called a «Parliament of Things».Therein lies the crux: if you really talk to nature you are not communicating with things but with a multicoloured population of consciousnesses.Nature beings are called those.That’s what nature peoples and, in our case, those who study anthroposophy know all about.Then the story sweeps to a remote eco-village in the north-east of the Netherlands. They liberate not only themselves from the oppression of a failing government, they help their neighbours as well.The third novella describes the visits of our heroes and the clever girls Ilonka and Stefanie to farmers who are inventing their own ways in the transition to sustainable agriculture.The first part of this modest trilogy is written in the form of a dramatized manual for dealing with nature beings. At Forge Neuve, two reservoirs with buildings and forest in the Vosges Mountains, part of the ecological community Ecolonie, work has been underway since 2020 to develop a form of concrete communication between humans and nature beings called “Language and Sign.”The second part was written for and inspired by my late friend Luc Sala. The trigger was starting a residential, off grid community in East Groningen. “What if...” was the question to which we formulated answers from a “worst case scenario. The project did not materialize, but the dystopian story Refugium had meanwhile seen the light of day.Part 3 is a compilation of projects found on the Internet by agriculturists who devised their own transition. It is captured in a series of fictional interviews by the same individuals who starred in Part 2 in the lead roles. Nature beings is an umbrella term for the entire kaleidoscope of elemental beings, guardian spirits, elementals, fauns, deva’s, goblins, gnomes, sylphs, dryads, naiads, nixes, pixies, leprechauns, garden fairies, flower fairies, landscape angels, salamanders, muses, creatures of decay and the like.