Prompt: Contentment is anathema to capitalism.  Response: "Capitalism thrives on the idea that individuals will always want more, drivi...

"(...) bear in mind that garden design as it is studied by the one nation which really understands it - the Japanese - takes many years...

" there’s a particular kind of disappointment when you begin to admire a bouquet or a blossom at a distance and find out closer up that...

« Biodiversity is the driver of the farm. If I'm asked "What do you grow?", I say "Biodiversity". The vegetables are...

"Carbon dioxide plus water combined in the presence of light and chlorophyl in the beautiful membrane-bound machinery of life yields su...

O tempo oferece palcos onde vamos esculpindo vidas. A nossa e a de outros seres que se entrelaçam na nossa. O tempo, esse grande escultor, d...

" Beauty is not only formal, and lies not only in the superficial qualities that are appealing to the eye or ear, it lies in patterns ...

"The demand for urban nature-based solutions can be expected to rise exponentially, as greening cities is the best measure to address t...

June 18, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

Estimates suggest that a garden of 1,000 square meters could sequester one ton of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per year [see entry from November, ...

"A garden is what you want (and can manage and afford), and what you want is who you are, and who you are is always a political and cul...

"An unplanned exercise in cooperation is taking place, with animal and plant, fungus and microbe, competing and collaborating in comple...

"Beyond our material limits (...) lies another world. A place worth visiting. An investment worth making. A destination worth reaching....

"Love appears as the most unlikely pinnacle in an entire universe of improbability. It's the most spectacular victory in our ongoin...

" Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, ...

"Ser brava é a gente firmar-se naquilo que está a fazer, no que está a dizer e naquilo que quer ser." Written on the wall of « As ...

  "Turning points in a life that seemed set on a predictable path suddendly emerge. (...) a reality check sets in. Once past certaintie...

It all started with a string ( a ) and pieces of wasted biomass ( b ). Then creating little tensions ( c ), expanding one bit ( d ) at a tim...

Between «all or nothing» there are thousands of green variations. Green washing, like inaction, is not green. Its a waste of time and resour...

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