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The air that we breathe is also the air our ancestors breathed 50, 100, 1,000 years ago. It is also the air that the willow, alder and yew trees exhaled 50, 100 or 1,000 years ago. The wasp breathes in the same air, the grasses and wildflowers exhaling into the deepening twilight. We can relate to our environment by simply remembering how to
... See moreJoanna van der Hoeven • Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone
Die Ordnung der übrigen belebten Welt war unabdingbar, um die eigene zu verstehen. Die Felsbilder zeichnen eine symbolische Ökologie – und diese Ökologie war es, die den Menschen über Jahrhunderttausende in der restlichen Schöpfung verankerte.
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
It strikes her that she envies him. His years of enforced tranquility, the patience of his slowed mind, the expansion of his blinkered senses. He can watch the dozen bare trees in the backyard for hours and see something intricate and surprising, sufficient to his desires, while she—she is still trapped in a hunger that rushes past everything.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
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It was one of my favorite poems, authorless, mysterious, the first two lines unparsable: Westron wynde, when wyll thow blow, The smalle rayne downe can Rayne,
Garth Greenwell • Small Rain
All day and all night long, her only people are the trees, and her only means of speaking for them are words, those organs of saprophytic latecomers that live off the energy green things make.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her
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