Aren’t the orchards pretty in the springtime, with their quaint tractor wobble reminiscent of human fragility and everything? You, too, can achieve this effect on your own yard. These babies will […]
Dandelion Swan Song
Columbia Hawthorn: Secret Weapon Against Climate Change
Sometimes, you can avoid migration with a little help from your friends. After five days of cold, this robin did not want to move and let me get quite close. But with […]
Translating Gaia: a Cautionary Tale
Alexander von Humboldt, credited with first diagnosing global warming some eight generations ago, as well as the concept of Nature as “all that there is” and the living Earth, Gaia herself … […]
Learning the Future from Clover
What a world we live in. Once, there was a shamanic landscape. If you walked out into the grass, you were in a wind that blew off the stars. The old stories […]
The Wobbly Thing About English Gardens
I’ve wondered about this “nature” thing for years. What on earth is it? This? Is this nature? Can’t be. It’s a language. Or, hey, is it that nature is a language? Is […]
Will You Decide to Stay?
If you’re looking for nature, why not go to the Chasm? A whole continental glacier drained out through here not that long ago. But if you’d rather get to know yourself, why […]
Opening Your Thoughts Wide
To move forward, let’s move forward and show our ends. This is your mind on roses. Gaps, Tracks and Crosses of Mind They feed and shelter birds, protect young seedlings from deer, […]
Consciousness and Environment: Artificial Intelligence Put in Place
Let’s put this simply: Artificial Intelligence is not a new invention. In the concept of a world that achieves action through balance … Ponderosa Pine male and female flowers ready for spring. […]
Artificial Intelligence vs. Consciousness: the B Side of the Dance
Imagine if your mind were one dimensional. Tomato Field But that’s an artifice, a trick, a tease — in short, an illusion. It operates like a mind, although it’s only a trick […]
The Meaning of Life
Imagine you are sitting among your ancestors, and you ask them, “What is the meaning of life?” and they answer with this: What do they mean? Oh, sure, some of them are […]
