Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it …
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Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. Via Dolorosa.
If the ‘hardest-worked river in the world’ can recover to this extent, almost anything is possible. Where Hope Flows.
The dictate that one ‘not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures. Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette.
Here’s one of the big ideas we need to fight the power of the elite. The Spark of Hope.
The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed. Line of Battle.
I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person. The anti-preneur manifesto.
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After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep…
Lilac (Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden')
2011-12-01
Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller…
The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical…
Tower of Babble (Chuck Palahniuk, 'Lullaby')
2008-01-01
Everywhere, words are mixing. Words and lyrics and dialogue are mixing in a soup that could trigger a chain reaction…
Many years ago I watched my daughter and her ‘Anglo’ friend take their infant sons out for their first springtime…
E.O. Wilson has written: ’... the next century will see the closing of the Cenozoic Era (the Age of Mammals) and a new one characterized not by new life forms but by biological impoverishment…
People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance…
And then I thought about how, for a long time, scientists were puzzled by the fact that the sky is dark at night, even though there are billions of stars in the universe…
Streams evolve through a balance of forces. The bed shifts as it erodes one bank and dumps its remains on the other…
Cities do not last. The first was founded but ten thousand years ago, and many have come and gone since then…
When their fuel runs out, stars collapse dramatically in upon themselves, and as they do so, enormous amounts of gravitational energy are released and converted into heat…