Some leaves have holes. Others are holes. All leaves are holes in the light. When they are alive, they place themselves there. When they are dead, they are like the rest of […]
Black Holes Are No Anomaly
What is Life?
These maple leaves are still alive and capturing the sun — some of them. Others are dead. None are attached to a tree. None can reproduce. None can feed a root or […]
The Leaf Comes First
Look how the green of this siya? leaf hangs on between its ribs, even though they have largely shut down themselves. It’s like it’s living on its own. A leaf like this […]
Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
Some leaves have trunks. Goethe said that all plants come from leaves. The rest is modified leaf. Maybe more than that. Look below. Some leaves have rocks. Both deliver support, sun, water, […]
The Beauty of Leaves and Light
Look how this young cottonwood leaf glows with light, and how the older leaves (by just a day or two), now full of chlorophyll, keep much of it. Here’s a similar effect […]
The Leaf People and the Stem People
Stem People on the left: Ants: the great climbers and farmers. Aphids: their herds. Leaf People on the right: Leaf Miners: the great wanderers, mapmakers and historians of what is passed but […]
Light and Dark and Colour are One
Light is a form of darkness. Look at these leaves burn their way through the snow, precisely because they are dark. Darkness is a form of energy. Notice how bright it is! […]
Reading the Language of Leaves
It’s an easy language to learn, a lot like watching stars. It’s not translatable into human words, but that doesn’t mean it’s not readable by humans. Even writable. I bet you could […]
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