Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.
- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)
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Nature doesn’t have to come as second nature. Experience is what makes the gardener. The trials, the errors, the joys, the agonies: You’re a gardener when you’ve had your share of it all. -- Catie Marron in The Washington Post
This Overview shows a deforested area of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Since the mid-1980s, resettlement of people from the high plains of the Andes Mountains and a corresponding agricultural development effort known as the Tierras Bajas project has led to utter deforestation in this region. The pinwheel-patterned fields follow the San Javier resettlement scheme, with each pinwheel containing a central community that includes a church, bar/café, school, and soccer field. The light-colored areas of the formations are primarily fields of soybeans, and the dark lines running through the fields are “windbreaks” that prevent the erosion of the area’s unusually fine soil.
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I say: Please. Let this spell grow legs. Let my sisters’ names grow long as their hair. Long as they need to. Let their names rattle the night air with their incessant lungs. Let the sounds of their names burn blue in the night,
Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony
Cyril Edward Power, The Vortex, 1929
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Raffaella De Laurentiis on working with sandworms in Dune, 1984.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbir Totoro (1988) The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
I just learned there's a thing in ecosystem building called a Soft Landing where you plant lots of herbaceous flowers and other non-woody materials beneath a tree so that if a bug falls off a branch while pupating they will be caught and safe :)
–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.