“People are like plants: they grow toward the light.”
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Ziigwan – The Season of Renewal
What you do every day makes you who you are. Leanne Simpson
#57: Where Water Meets Land – A Practice of Sintering
“I do not have day and I do not have moonlight
I do not believe in time I do believe in water”
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Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #56
“How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you’re on believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency?” Leanne Simpson
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #55
In opening up the worlds of botany and feminism through interdisciplinary approaches, we see new multispecies possibilities. Banu Subramaniam
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #54
I can lose my hands, and still live. I can lose my legs and still live. I can lose my eyes and still live. I can lose my hair, eyebrows, nose, arms, and many other things and still live. But if I lose the air I die. If I lose the sun I die. If I lose the earth I die. If I lose the water I die. If I lose the plants and animals I die. All of these things are more a part of me, more essential to my every breath, than is my so-called body. What is my real body? (Jack D. Forbes)
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #53
Almost in every symbiosis plants and their positive relationships are involved. Plants form the structure of ecosystems and ultimately provide food for all other members of the community
Andreas Gigon
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Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #52
Read MoreIt kills plants, breaks down ecological structures, sets molecules adrift, shuffles species, opens up niches, and for a time rewires the flow of energy and nutrients. Fire upsets, quickens, shreds, reorganizes, and rejuvenates.
Stephen Pyne
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #49
Have you been into composting lately? Making soil definitely is a good idea. We also ask what soil is. Soil is home to 90% of the world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria – and 59% of life overall, a recent study says. Let’s look closer at soil organisms through the art and science practice of a microbiologist, who brings the tiniest soil world to light.
Read MoreBetween Us and Nature – A Reading Club #48
Up to 90% of living organisms live or spend part of their life cycle in soils. 95% of our food comes from soils. Most soil is degraded. In a time of planetary change, we want to expand our views on soil.
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