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In total, a fifth of all animal and plant species—that’s about six thousand of the species we know about—depend on dead wood.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
And now the competition between the young trees and the deer heats up for a few years. Will the little beeches, oaks, and firs manage to grow tall enough fast enough so that the animals can no longer get their mouths around the all-important main shoots?
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
In The Overstory, Richard Powers summed up the holistic realization of ecology: ‘There are no individuals in a forest, no separable events. The bird and the branch it sits on are a joint thing. A third or more of the food a big tree makes may go to feed other organisms. Even different kinds of trees form partnerships. Cut down a birch, and a nearby
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
True adulthood, or psychological maturity, has become an uncommon achievement in Western and Westernized societies, and genuine elderhood nearly nonexistent. Interwoven with arrested personal development, and perhaps inseparable from it, our everyday lives have drifted vast distances from our species’ original intimacy with the natural world and fr
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
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