I have seen them, in a fashion they are similar to us, but different their bodies, their eyes, the way they move huge, powerful — I understand, now these rumors that they are gods I remain skeptical sometimes it strikes me, though not divine they are master teachers, gurus I observe them carefully as they carry on commanding tremendous forces with such ease I seek to emulate what I […]
Archive | January, 2015
All sentient beings
The Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 documentary based on the 1973 book of the same name by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Described as “A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man,” the book—and the film—explore the hypothesis that plants are sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. Sentience is demonstrated primarily through changes in the plant’s conductivity, […]
Robin Wall Kimmerer | Learning the grammar of animacy
To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shhh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch […]
Pattiann Rogers | Being accomplished
Balancing on her haunches, the mouse can accomplish Certain things with her hands. She can pull the hull From a barley seed in paperlike pieces the size of threads. She can turn and turn a crumb to create smaller motes The size of her mouth. She can burrow in sand and grasp One single crystal grain in both of her hands. A quarter of a dried pea can fill her […]
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