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Humans Have Just Arrived
This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.
― Richard Powers
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A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. ‘Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?’ he asks. ‘No,’ replies the colleague, ‘but I’ve been told that it works even if you don’t believe in it.’
— Niels Bohr
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“The voice you once thought lost
will return to you.
Do not be surprised when you realize
that her tone is deeper, richer, and a bit
wilder
than the voice you remembered.
She has traveled
through the belly of the underworld
and while you spent your nights
plotting escape from captivity
she seasoned
in the dark recesses of the earth.”
~ Sarah La Rosa (of Her Strange Angels)
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All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth. When we were tribal…
