We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations a... See more
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
Imagine that the earth we are experiencing now is like a star.
Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
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Many of the stars we see have already died.
What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,
is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
T... See more
Allegra Preuss • The Water in the Wood
Yet if we no longer call out to the moon slipping between the clouds, or whisper to the spider setting the silken struts of her web, well, then the numerous powers of this world will no longer address us—and if they still try, we will not likely hear them.