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All of this demands a kind of Sabbath slowdown in the midst of our otherwise “efficient” and “productive” lives.30 To grow a garden is to inhabit a different economics.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
In The Overstory, Richard Powers summed up the holistic realization of ecology: ‘There are no individuals in a forest, no separable events. The bird and the branch it sits on are a joint thing. A third or more of the food a big tree makes may go to feed other organisms. Even different kinds of trees form partnerships. Cut down a birch, and a nearby
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
fundamental task of the course architect changed from adapting golf to the landscape to adapting the landscape to golf.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
I wish this were Europe
but most of it remains locked in the ecosystem forever.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
