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- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's…
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,…
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other…
- After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
- Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent…
- Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It…
- When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
- A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant…
- What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
- When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so…
- Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.…
- Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color…
- Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
- Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and…
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