We need to "reinvent movement, the vector of our actions. We need to not forge ahead into the infinite, but learn to step back , to unp...

" there’s a particular kind of disappointment when you begin to admire a bouquet or a blossom at a distance and find out closer up that...

"To remain aloof from the group while honouring one's organic ties to it; to exist between loneliness and alignment, remaining alwa...

"It's the spectator who judges and who decides, to the point where every relationship between forest, sun, lake, animal and sky go...

“ I experienced awe and wonder at this world we live in. How incredible existence is. The probability of our being here, of having survived ...

"She paused, and ran some sentences through her head, almost hearing herself (...). But she only let the words echo through her head, b...

" Because it is always tempting to over emphasize autonomy and independence, these helpless creatures are here to remind us that no one...

" how can humans serve as sources of healing and regeneration for every living system they affect ?" Regenerative Development an...

"There is a connection between the brain and the hand that supports an embodied cognition, a knowing. Handicrafts in particular, which ...

The making of " Places of terrible beauty and layered earth and buried secrets ." Suzane Simard (2022). Finding the Mother Tree: U...

"(...) from wholeness as a living plant to fragment strands and back to wholeness again as a" tapestry. "The dual powers of ...

I've been discovering more affordances for the materials that nature (and people) offer me. At this time of the year there is an abundan...

"To let threads be articulate again and find a form for themselves to no other end than their own orchestration, not to be sat on, walk...

« Biodiversity is the driver of the farm. If I'm asked "What do you grow?", I say "Biodiversity". The vegetables are...

"The most beautiful thing of all... is whatever you love best." Irene Vallejo (2022). Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancie...

The beginning of a new tapestry starts long before I lay out the threads on the frame. Each tapestry starts as a synapse that survived in my...

Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) April 13, 2024.

 Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) April 13, 2024.

"When you tape into the arts to foster a meditative state, the places in your brain responsible for judgment and personal criticism are...

"Carbon dioxide plus water combined in the presence of light and chlorophyl in the beautiful membrane-bound machinery of life yields su...

O tempo oferece palcos onde vamos esculpindo vidas. A nossa e a de outros seres que se entrelaçam na nossa. O tempo, esse grande escultor, d...

How can we go on living our lives when people of war keep annihilating lives around the world? How can we devise a prosperous future for any...

" What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identi...

" Beauty is not only formal, and lies not only in the superficial qualities that are appealing to the eye or ear, it lies in patterns ...

" We know that loving a person has agency and power - we know it can change everything. Yet we act as if loving the land is an interna...

“ Imperfect they may be, but I believe they are a beginning of a reweaving of the bond between people and the land. (…) I can take the burie...

"Time as objective reality has never made much sense to me. It's what happens that matters. (...) If there is meaning in the past a...

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” Rob...

Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), taken November 7, 2023.

“In fighting against resistance, we will become more focused on getting rid of the problem than on understanding what it is; by contrast, wh...

"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...