Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
“I could see and feel with my own eyes how it feels to live with the land and somehow that reawakened those memories again. The memories of our ancestors. And now I feel it. I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my blood. I feel it circling through my body.” - Kalyanee Mam
From Linear’s ReadMe manifesto.
This truck was on the train track at my local Amtrak station today. It has rail wheels in place of its truck wheels. Even the back three sets that look like regular wheels are truck wheels surrounding rail wheels so it can drive on or off track as needed.
"On land, multicellular life stays pretty close to the surface. But every depth of the ocean is inhabited, in numbers that we are just beginning to appreciate...
"...Comparing the inhabitable terrain of the ocean to that of the land yields a startling statistic: The ocean represents something very close to 99 percent of the biosphere. Spread out as
... See moreJournalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. - The Woodcutter and the Trees