Leaves don’t hang from trees and trees don’t look like this: They look like this: Cottonwood Leaves are drawn out of the trees by the sun. Gravity might pull them down … […]
The Thing About Leaves
Water is the Speech of the Earth
It is commonly said that water reflects light. It’s a great observation. However, water also gives light a place to reveal itself. That is an older observation, but no less lucid. During […]
What the Robin Knows
Humanly created knowledge sees this as two species. That’s a quirk of language. Not to be trusted. Human culture fixes the error by calling this an ecological niche. But that is a story […]
Heidegger Dreamed of This
Unfortunately, he practiced phenomenological philosophy (PPP! whew!) instead.
Fun With Light
“Light travels in straight lines.” Yes, if observed from a science that measures straight lines. No, if observed from within light, within the world, within gravity or within perception. The statement is meant […]
Creating a Science That Includes the Earth
Science is a powerful tool. It’s built on a couple of foundational principles: 1. there is someone watching, 2. only what that person sees can be studied, and 3. only what is […]
The Future of Life
Life is the ability of self-replicating organisms being able to react to the environment. Life is also a quality of an environment. When an environment is said to have life, it means it is energized, […]
What is Asparagus Really?
Or is that asparagus math?Pretty cool, either way! Music, math … these are just words. Art? No. Just a word. But, without words, what? That wordless point is where we’re headed. If […]
Beauty: Measuring Device
Autumn is upon us. A time of fruitfulness.Look closer. What a beautiful one! It’s fair to say that what I, a human, observe as beauty is not necessarily aesthetic, yet is attractive, in […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
