January 2010
9 posts
“In North America this spontaneous and quietly growing movement goes by many...”
– david abram, from the spell of the sensuous, which is a beautiful and thought-provoking book. my copy is dogeared and underlined all to heck.
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“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age”
– dylan thomas. the third time this excerpt from this poem has crossed my path in the past six months—i am taking notice.
“The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone…. To try and...”
– wendell berry, from the unsettling of america, as quoted by stephen harrod buhner in the lost language of plants.
“[Our bodies] are not distinct from the bodies of plants and animals, with which...”
– wendell berry, from the unsettling of america (which is on my reading list), as quoted by stephen harrod buhner in the lost language of plants (which i read recently).
“The trees closing over my head in the Amazon furo made me feel the presence of...”
– charles c. mann, 1491: new revelations of the americas before columbus, page 326.
