“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it, and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You’re just talking.” Wangari Maathai....

"Whereas labour involves care and sustenance, work is the domain of creation and creativity. It calls on craft and skill and vision. It...

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

Jorge Queiroz (2020). A Day Later 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5 (not in this order). Exposição « to go to », Calouste Gulbenkian. 

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"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, ...

"Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less   hands...

"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself."   Dreams   by Nuag...

"From the point of view of the network, mycelium is a single interconnected entity. From the point of view of a hyphal tip, mycelium is...

"Uma imagem, pintada, esculpida, fotografada, construída e emoldurada, é igualmente um palco, o local para uma encenação. O que o artis...

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"Love offers perhaps the highest example of human flourishing. An ultimate expression of human prosperity." Tim Jackson (2021). Po...

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Dangerous developments that seem interesting in 2007 described in a paper by Wild A. Crabtree et al (2006) «Supporting Ethnographic Studie...

"The spaces in which we can enjoy privacy have shrunk. We need consciously to create privacy zones in order to claw back some areas in ...

"Some big tech became big by plundering our data without asking for permission (…) we were told that it was necessary for our gadgets ...

"The history of rights is, to a large extent, the history of progressively recognizing that human beings are not resources to exploit,...

"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 ...

  "The cunning of uncertainty suspends routine. (…) It prepares one for surprises that come with increasing order of complexity in whi...

"If the past has any significance for the present, here is a strong reminder that technology alone is never sufficient to garantee the ...

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

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

Call it what you will - futures, utopias, dreams - but remeber they " are imperfect, they are imaginative, they are joyful and wild, th...

As earthling, living in Portugal, I can´t imagine what Ukraine beings are going through in these hours, or what it must feel for Russian bei...

"(...) I can think of no better form of personal involvement than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden (...) organically...

"A renewable power system is not dependent on foreign energy imports nor vulnerable to fuel price manipulations – which are the main wo...

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"The combination between biometric data and mass surveillance results in an unlawful practice that unfairly treats everyone like a susp...

  "Emerging trends in adaptation place an emphasis on the need for more transformational changes, which has a distinct logic that diffe...

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

"[A]ll this was an ongoing labor of love. The sustainability of nature (...) never just falls into place; it must be brought out throug...

"I comb through the mess of existing worlds-in-the-making, looking for treasures - each distinctive and unlikely to be found again....