We cry habitat loss, but it’s theft, really – no one is so careless as to lose their home.
Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies
We cry habitat loss, but it’s theft, really – no one is so careless as to lose their home.
The Story of More, Our Story Begins
"All human beings are a lot better at describing what is happening than at predicting what will happen. Somewhere along the way, however, we began to hope that scientists were different - that they could be right all the time. And because they're not, we kind of stopped listening."
Under the Sky We Make
"We are living under the sky we make. We have made it with our behaviour, and we can remake it that way too."
Finally opened my eyes to what is actually happening to this planet (what we've done to it) and it's terrifying but it's not too late, not yet.
Crocuses Emerge from Damp Soil
But there is hope in it. Crocuses, beloved as early harbingers of spring, stand out, a little pool of brightness in a sea of drab. That combination of rich purple and zinging orange is an antidote to gloom.
I hope you can find some crocuses this week.
Anne with an E, episode 3.5
22.2.22
Tags adaptation, Anne of Green Gables, Anne with an E, drama, family, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Naledi Jackson, TV seriesMiss Stacy: I can assure you no one will become pregnant from dancing.
Ruby: But there was so much touching!
Miss Stacy: That's not how it works, it's not...topical.
English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Progress
Read the whole book.
new farming had taken two mutually beneficial things - grazing animals and fertilizing fields - and separated them to create two massive industrial-scale problems ... farms with thousands of animals had more muck than their land could possibly accommodate, while crop farmers now had no animals, and thus no muck to fertilize plants
English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Nostalgia
Read the whole book.
As I sat in the back of the tractor watching the seagulls, it felt as if Grandad and the seagulls behind his plough were part of the same whole, the one as true as the other. They both had timeless claims on the earth; they both belonged to the same cycle in that landscape.
Lab Girl
Just popping this book on my wishlist.
A plant that lives where it should not is simply a pest, but a plant that thrives where it should not live is a weed. We don't resent the audacity of the weed, as every seed is audacious; we resent its fantastic success.
Art & Fear, Chapter I
In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.
Art & Fear, Introduction
Making art is a common and intimately human activity, filled with all the perils (and rewards) that accompany any worthwhile effort. The difficulties artmakers face are not remote and heroic, but universal and familiar.
The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency, Chapter 1
Cows are not the problem with our world. Over-farming of cows is. Over-farming of everything is. Cows are great for the planet when done properly.
"It is no secret that rotting cow manure is the very best source of 'humus' which will make your garden give a bumper disease-free harvest. The cow is nature's superb storehouse of beneficial bacteria which magically transform grass into protein."
The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency, Chapter 1
I always wondered why I couldn't find my 'one thing'.
"We were not meant to be a one-job animal. We do not thrive as parts of a machine. We are intended by nature to be diverse, to do diverse things, to have many skills."
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