“Be brave. Be Kind. And then act. Because it’s action, however imperfect, that begins to bend the world towards justice, towards compassion,...

A new cycle begins. “ (…) it’s about as full circle as it gets. (…) One day at a time, and suddenly you realize life is brighter, life is li...

" Because it is always tempting to over emphasize autonomy and independence, these helpless creatures are here to remind us that no one...

"Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to g...

"Depth We must be still  Heart breaks  Soul Fire  Flood lines  Earthquakes  Depth over distance  Deep roots  And charred ashes  Hard...

"Because digital minimalists spend so much less time connected than their peers, its easy to think of their lifestyles as extreme, but ...

"Creativity, while it needs certain conditions to flourish, refuses to become subject to prediction. The creative process moves from d...

  Equinox. Equilibrium between night and day. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

  “There are a total of 399 protected areas in Portugal, 167 Natura 2000 sites - 62 Special Protection Areas (Birds Directive) and 102 Sites...

"Stillness presents a break or pause in the flow of habitual events, whilst illuminating temporal gaps and fissures within which altern...

"Wherever you are now, however urban or interior your life, nature is still there for you - anchoring, inspiring, helping you bec...

"If restoration is not possible for a disturbed ecosystem in an irreversibly changed environment, then rewilding is the adaptive ...

"This is the third in a series of reports on the circular economy in support of the framing, implementation and evaluation of Euro...

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

"We are back to family, to the life cycle, to human fragility and experience (...) above all, the virtues of appreciating relationsh...

September in the garden , 2017. Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)