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... 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.
T... See more
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
The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces.