"Given enough solitude and enough time, the mind shifts into default mode and pans through connections that at first seem wholly rando...

“It is a matter of broadening the definitions of class by pursuing an exhaustive search for everything that makes subsistence possible. As ...

“(…) it’s time to wake up the tissues of perception that have been there all along. We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniabl...

"(...) trees and plants aren´t simply competing with one another. (...) Instead, over millions of years vegetation has built vast c...

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

Carbon dioxide (CO2) sink in the city / Sumidouro de dióxido de carbono (CO2) citadino. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( C...

"Mutualism is a subset of symbiosis in which there exists between organisms a prolonged relationship that is interdependent and reci...

"It was so long ago that my mind softens even the sharpest features, melting memories into liquid pain. (...) It's odd how fac...

" no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master " by Elif Shafak (2014). The Architect's Apprentice. Image by ...

  "Living wood, left long enough, behaves as a slow-moving fluid." Robert MacFarlane, 2019. Underland: a deep time journey. I...

Which life is this? Some say it’s hell some say it’s bliss Some neither know  nor care to glimpse  What is temporal and what ...

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"(...) humans who build their success solely on the oppression of others may one day find their own feathered nests collapsing. We...

" We are not bacteria in a petri-dish earth ." Are we?  Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin (2018). The Human planet: how we cre...

"Applying ourselves to minimize human suffering and the loss of species by making every efford to limit the coming chaos under rap...

"Rewilding is about an act of unbounded restoration, and an act of mitigating against the negative impacts of rapid environmental ...

"This guide will help you to decipher the vast quantities of information you can glean from your local environment and especially ...

"We create space - our holistic ’view of the world’ - to manage awareness, relate and contrast our embodied information. Perceived...

"We hope that The Limits to Growth will command critical attention and spark debate in all societies. We hope that it will encour...

“A garden of 1,000 square meters (a quarter of an acre) can pack away up to one ton of CO 2 per year.” Peter Wohlleben (2019). The Weather ...

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"In narrative terms, the Anthropocene began with widespread colonialism and slavery: it is a story of how people treat the environmen...

" One critical aspect of our environmental impact results from what we do with our time ." (Lewis and Mark, 2018). Where do you ...

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

"No matter how small, if you attend to the space you control with love you become part of the solution, not the problem! What can ...

"(...) selective tree breeding to enhance genetic diversity in forests and protect endangered genetic resources increases disease ...

"[M]elhorar o efeito estético da vegetação natural (...) na base das paredes, juntas e áreas" que favoreçam "espécies com...

   "(...) any knowledge we have is dependent on the technology, circumstances, situations, and actions from which it was construct...

"(...) it was nature herself who created the shapes and patterns (...) without the need for pruning shears; branches feathered do...

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"Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of ac...

There is a small forest in the city "(...) that has a shade of green for every possible felicitation of light;" Zadie Smith, 2...

“An organism tends to act upon the world in a mediated way. It actively converts (sensory) data into information and then constructively...

This plant (agapanthus) is producing flowers with more than the habitual 6 petals. In the photo you can see a flower with 10 petals. Othe...

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