Sublime

As in so much of this book, I am interested in generativity;

In naming the plants who shower us with goodness, we recognize that these are gifts from our plant relatives, manifestations of their generosity, care, and creativity. James Vukelich, an Anishinaabe linguist, teaches that these plant gifts are “a manifestation of unconditional love that plants have for people.” Plants offer whatever they have, to w

If I use the word “God,” I sure don’t mean an old man in the sky who loves the occasional goat sacrifice. I mean “God” as Jane Kenyon described God: “I am food on the prisoner’s plate . . . / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden . . . / the stone step, / the latch, and the working

What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.

Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.

life for some goes smoothly, as free from incident as it is perhaps from poetry; a fainter kind of happiness than Less has ever perceived. We are all having different experiences.

a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.

seemed to Majnoun like a competition amongst the low to see who could be lowest. In which case, discretion was strength,