Nic Grobler
@centinelthrush
Nic Grobler
'The opposite of doomscrolling'
“Birding is punk,” Lombardo said, scanning the trees for movement before the morning meeting. “It requires patience and awareness and it’s very real. Those [values] are very much counterculture. Being outside and in the real world is so sick and beautiful to me.”
Kenneal Patterson • In Greenpoint, a Wacky New Birding Group Is Ruffling Some Feathers
Maria Popova — An Almanac of Birds
Stephen Gill, The Pillar
The natural world, to paraphrase Walt Whitman, contains multitudes. It’s calming, quiet; brutal and savage; ordered and utterly chaotic. For all our talk of the anthropocene, ultimately, as humans, we cannot control it. Nature works to its own whims and timings. It doesn’t need order as much as we feel the need to order it, whether physically or mentally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVacr5IChaE&ab_channel=REI
In the heart of the city stands a forest, a jewel of green in a sea of concrete. That jewel is Brooklyn, New York’s Prospect Park. In the REI Co-op Studios film, "Saturday in the Park," film narrator Steve Buscemi guides us on a walk through the park where we meet birdwatchers, ecologists, dancers, musicians, volunteers, and so many others who treasure the park.
