Anoushka Ray
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Anoushka Ray
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I'm not looking to save the world; I'm trying to preserve humanity's connection with nature. I was given an invaluable gift by having Corbett be such a pivotal part of my upbringing, and I want others to have the chance to find meaning in wildlife as I did. Wild spaces like these are sacred to animals and humans alike; just as fish find haven at
... See morewithout introducing children to the interconnectedness of life, the gushy, gross wonder of the roiling, seething, slimy, dirty aliveness of nature, how will they love it, and how will they protect it?
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
Humans are nature. There is no such thing as a separate nature. That is, it seems quite silly that humans still say things like: “I love to get out into nature.” Or “I’m really inspired by nature.” Or “we have to get back to nature.” What a weird, common, and deep lapse this is. The divisions we see are made by us and are of a wholly provisional
... See moreOnce Leonard Cohen read a whole poem on the radio.
The interviewer asked him “What does the poem mean?”
Cohen paused for a long moment - and then read the entire poem again.
Jerry Saltzx.com
if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
daisy.substack.comI don’t believe people want to be told how to live their lives. What we really want is to renounce the responsibility that comes from choosing wrong, making mistakes, and being the perpetrators of pain, self-inflicted and done to others.