" The stories illustrate that biodiversity, climate and inequality are inseparable agendas. (...) The biodiversity community needs to m...

"A certain conception of «nature» has allowed the Moderns to occupy the Earth in such a way that it forbids others to occupy their own...

Resilience "is a passive process, implying the ability to absorb blows and get back up. Regeneration, on the other hand is active: ...

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“The information society is like a tree that has been growing its far-reaching branches much more widely, hastily, and chaotically than its...

“Growing our connections to nature will allow us to push past mere intellect to embrace sensory experiences, emotions, intuition. (…) For t...

“(…) whenever suitable conditions to move demand and supply closer can be identified by reducing the number of technological and human i...

   «The new Earth 2.0 that will emerge after COVID‑19 will be a “new normal”, but many fundamental challenges will still exist. Chief a...

  Define growth: the process of increasing in size. the upward growth of plants. the process of developing physically, mentally, or spi...

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“We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniable fact, shedding the long-standing illusion that there’s nature “out there” and the...

“Expectation, fantasy and reality are intermingled on the surface of our skin, a stage on which our life is played out. (…) Touch is e...

"In categorical thinking the boundaries are drawn. But mystery is open-ended, messy, full of promise, and lacking in certainty. (.....

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"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...

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"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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