The replacement of lawn with gravel to save a rain shadow valley from drought is based on the principle of laying plastic down over the living earth and smothering it so that […]
Plastic, Gardens and Drought
Harold Rhenisch
www.haroldrhenisch.com
Who is the Gardener?
I have learned this week what I already knew but had no words for. I am not the gardener in this land, but the garden that the land makes. Needle-and-thread grass makes […]
Gardens of Water
I left the garden today, and all its lettuces, kale, spinach and dill, and went up to the water, where the birches rise out of the cedars and the wild roses. The […]
Being Present on the Earth
Between eye and eye, and mind and mind, there is no distance. Hundreds of millions of years vanish.
More Magpie Fun: Experimental Flight
Whee! It’s fun to be a magpie, and as for wing-flapping? Not necessary! ~ OK, so I had my camera on the wrong setting today, but you can get the […]
Global Warming, Indigenous Culture and Industrial Nature
Please, forget carbon dioxide for just a minute, if you can. It’s a symptom, not a cause. There is worse. Nature in Canada This mule deer doe is trapped by fences on […]
The Romance of Wine
Maybe we should stop copying the cultural appropriation of old celtic technology, eh, and get real. Pesticides, Vineyards and Tourists on the Rhine Sometimes it’s hard to keep laughing. Just a thought.
Eye, Aye
Between Earth and the Sun there is a balance, that is both at once. This planet can see. Being seen by her is as much a privilege as seeing back.
Leaves of the Sun, Limbs of the Earth
Just look at the heat of the sun in the leaves and the cool water of the earth flowing through the warm inner bark of this tree. Let’s teach our children to […]
Understanding Nature
This field of swiss grain above Lake Constance is a good example of the kind of conversations humans have with the earth. This represents technology brought from Asia to Europe and used […]
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