Sublime

All of them. Our future is going to be a contest between Gray, Green, and Gaia, between those three paradigms, those three sets of forces. Which is exactly what we’re experiencing today. The Right vs. Left, climate-is-a-hoax vs. climate-is-real argument, which unfortunately still absorbs so much of our energy, is an irrelevant conversation to what

in the Anthropocene, there are no disinterested observers; there are only participants.

John Todd, the venerable systems ecologist best known for his work on environmental remediation. In 1969 Todd founded the New Alchemy Institute and began to design microecosystems, self-contained plant communities inside greenhouses. Using them as small-scale prototypes for larger real-world projects, he revolutionized how we approach solving envir

bring redemption to all of humankind.

We are finally able to unite our artistic concerns with our environmental and spiritual concerns. The Bard, Ovate and Druid are one person standing on the earth – poet and shaman, healer and philosopher – spiritual and earthy.

the life of each, man and the plant, depends on the other.

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.

John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”

A network, once established, might be called an individual.