"Observing something beautiful" is "an occasion for unselfing" and it "may well hold the key to our collective surv...

«(...) words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation, a crash connected, in ways we have barely begun to understand, to the torre...

"(...) metamorphosis occurs when two or more unlike elements are joined (...). Here the craftsman has consciously to decide if the comb...

While reading about the « Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator », discovered the larger solution scenarios for human powered...

" If we had 30 days to save the world, would we act before the 29th ? " Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty; like a butterfly it seeks colour and basks in warmth." Virginia W...

"Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to g...

"(...) she could remember nothing. For all the dinners are cooked; the plates and cups washed; the children sent to school and gone int...

"The demand for urban nature-based solutions can be expected to rise exponentially, as greening cities is the best measure to address t...

"Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and meaning." Yi-Fu Tuan (2005). Space and Place. The perspective of ex...

"Build a life that you don't need to escape from." "If true peace and clarity are what you seek in this life (...) know t...

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...