How strange that people who try to protect the Planet are called «activists» or «rebels», instead of «protectors» or «carers». Even stranger...

Made by Mother Earth and Father Time, and Love. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"Particular attention should be paid to the material used, for good craftsmanship is built on natural foundations, and nature assures t...

"When you can see yourself from outside, you contemplate existence with more humility and perceptiveness than when (...) you imagined y...

"It's a strange sort of pain. (...) To die of yearning for something you'll never experience." by Alessandro Baricco (1997...

The plants used in my tapestries come from my little garden, are gathered during my walks, or collected during visits to friends and family ...

Navete ou lançadeira. Portuguese words used for shuttle. "A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that car...

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

June 10, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

June 20, 2023. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"Women have been the weavers of tales and tapestries. For centuries, they have unspooled their stories as they spun or threw the shuttl...

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, ...

Some people say “ let’s invent a machine to sequester carbon ” but “w e already have a fantastic productive system to sequester lots of carb...

"The basic unit for minds is the image, the image of a thing or of what a thing does, or what the thing causes you to feel; or the imag...

"A warning is not a prophecy; the former assumes that we have choices and cautions us about the consequences; the latter operates on th...

"While options range from incremental changes to fundamental reform, science provides a clear warning about continuing on our current p...

"(...) black locust produces a fruity and fragrant honey, and its blossoms are used for cooking." More about this tree in Sitzia,...

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

"Depth We must be still  Heart breaks  Soul Fire  Flood lines  Earthquakes  Depth over distance  Deep roots  And charred ashes  Hard...

"The word integrity means moral consistency and commitment, but it also means something whole and unbroken, uninjured, and it's a ...

"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...

"The order that matters most is not spacial but temporal. Sometimes pictures convey this, but the habit of seeing in pictures encourage...

[MP] What is your view about the myth of eternal growth? [ChatGPT] As a machine learning model, I don't have personal views or opinions....

"You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that." Haemin Sunim (2...

"Only by altering our habits, and by endeavouring to live less exploitatively, can we prevent the changes to the environment from beco...

" As we notice more and more in the present moment, we come to a deeper realization that a silent observer is within us. In the primord...

"Extinction bursts through that web, breaking connections and threatening its integrity. Sever one strand, and it wavers, reshapes, but...

And this light  Still won't shine bright  But there'll be enough to see right  A thought that's handed down  Old torn and frayed...

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

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"Long distance dispersal may be rare, but in a world where enough attempts occur, only one attempt needs to succeed. What is remarkable...

"Even in the stormiest sea, there is a calm that comes with staying true to your convictions." Harvard Business Review (2022). Ene...

"There are certain fundamental rules that all ecosystems must follow. Energy, usually harnessed in from sunlight or, rarely, from the b...

"Weaving is a transformative process with many functions. It involves clearing thought, and organizing personal energy and emotion. A h...

"The scale of the problem is so vast, complex and interconnected that inertia has plagued the issue. But, a foodscape-scale approach to...

"The earth system reacts henceforth to your action in such a way that you no longer have a stable and indiferent framework in which to ...