Look how the light of dawn … … draws itself in at sunrise. And then reveals the story of water ,,, … and air. Are not water, air and light one single […]
The Power of Words in Environmental Perception and Change
The Bed of the Wind
The wind and the rain made a mysterious shape in the grass on the hill. We had quite a storm. It looks like the grass was pushed against itself, with wind-surge meeting […]
Resisting The English Language for the Sake of the Earth
The English language, as it has evolved, is a problem. Here’s an image. The language assures us that these are “clouds”, which culture defines as water vapour, blowing across the sky, which […]
Fjall: The Setting Forth from English as a Colonial Language
Well, here it is, Okanagan Lake, a fjord lake over-deepened by a melting glacier and filling a gap some 1600 metres deep. The rock in the background of the image below is […]
Growing an Old Language New Together
A language is not a string of beads on a wire that you hook around your neck, fiddle with, mumble along with, and presto, you have a smart phone. An indigenous language […]
Mind and Body are One
Things are just what they seem. Like dreams, the act of looking into water has no words. And it can’t be given any, except the simplest ones: blue, log, deep, water, light, wet, […]
The Problem With Darwin
Darwin is English. Goethe is German. There have been wars over this. Pity. Let me explain. First, an image of multiplicity from the former East Germany: Goethe’s Botanical Garden in Jena, Germany […]
Words, Humans, Earth: the Relationship Renewed
Let’s open with poetry today, and then stand firmly in science. First, the earth turns towards the sun … (Trumpets tooting … can you hear them?) … and the starlings hold the […]
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