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"The sun glistens on the leaves in a way I've never seen. It's real. Not like the sun in the Dome. (...) Mother Nature is al...

In the begining of 19th century, "Humboldt was the first to explain the fundamental functions of the forest for the atmosphere and th...

" Mycorrhizal networks (also known as common mycorrhizal networks or CMN) are underground hyphal networks created by mycorrhizal f...

‘forest’ means an area of land defined by the minimum values for area size, tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level, and potenti...

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" Close your eyes, prick your ears, and from the softest sound to the wildest noise, from the simplest tone to the highest harmony, ...

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“The free-radical theory of ageing is one of those beautiful ideas killed by ugly facts. (…) Not one tenet of the theory, as it was origin...

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"(...) the power for growth comes from the reactivity of the environment,  wich fluxes continuously through living cells  (in the f...

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"The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle." Arundhati ...

"After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might ...

"Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background (...) It usually took strangers a while to notice him even when t...

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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest cr...

May 5, 2018. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC )

"Photographs were useful, but somehow always confirmed the memory rather than liberating it." Julian Barnes, 2018, The only stor...

"(...) there are memories that seem to run like a film, smoothly overlaying all the others, that have such shape and form that you s...

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

Doing what I know, the best I can, with what I have, wherever I am. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

Edible forest: fire prevention, energy production (biomass), carbon storage, growth of local resources (less energy/fuel consumption for ...

"More than conversation at the interface, it is creative assemblages like these that explore and elaborate the particular dynamic capa...

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"How many millions of other activities begin and end at the same time? How many other «facts» converge in just the right way, creating...

"Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then its over ." ...

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Life is a distraction from death. Save energy. Adapt fast. Diversity is key for survival. Take some, leave some. Share surplus. Live in ha...

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"L ife is made of this moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together in a stor...

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