Keely Adler

All of this is arising inside the long-established paradigm of distinction, of relating to the world as made up of discrete objects — of which each of us is one.

We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct... See more

To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?

globalisation ‘has stripped us of imagination because it’s all about replication, it’s all about spreading your brand around the world. In order to do that, you have to reach the common denominator, you have to routinise, make things the same. It’s the opposite of imagination’.19 Local economies, she told me, are by nature more imaginative as they

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When we treat it as axiomatic that small towns have no use or place for such people, that if you have ever liked a French movie you had better just hurry to the nearest city, we forget that part of being a community is leaving room for the diversity of human nature.

A generation’s currency is measured in trends, the moments that make an era mouthwateringly memorable. Only these fads are no longer dictated by a handful of tastemakers. Instead, what gets crowned as cool is often determined by how well a trend appeals to the rhythms of a specific platform. An idea’s artistic or cultural cachet depends on how... See more

One of the very first metalabels is the Royal Society, founded in 1660. The Royal Society began when a group of people in the 17th century pooled money and resources to fund experiments and publish the first scientific journals so that scientific thinking and practices would be accepted in English society.

Part of manifestation, I was learning, essentially involved looking on the extreme bright side of everything. After all, once you believe events are the direct result of your manifestations, then the logic follows that even negative consequences must be the result of them, too – and therefore must actually be positive.