crisis at Lonetree, Flagstaff, AZ: action alert written w/ dear Heather (8/03/00)diet
politics/organizations
theory
background © albino frog
So as to invoke the Other (sometimes known as the mother). |
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is to us so are we to the trees as they are to the rocks and the hills -Gary Snyder |
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"This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.this we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected."
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"radicalism is no longer red, but green" |
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"The rain surrounded the cabin... with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumour. think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hillside... Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. it will talk as long as it wants, the rain. As long as it talks, I'm going to listen" -Thomas Merton |
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"Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds and shapes of an animate earth. Our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes."
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"i was sitting in the redwood forest, completely engulphed in the heartbeat of planet earth. all life around me was pulsating and breathing out loud. as i shed my human disguise, i entered a magical kingdom, so profound and real. i began to notice everything in a way the english word cannot even describe...the ancient ones, now lying on the forest floor; carpeted with moss, hosting an entire ecosystem, had died; but not before passing on life to their majestic offspring. the story was amazing; everywhere i looked was memory of procreation..." |
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the weeds scaling up the side of the flowerpots are moving in & up and soon there won't be no light for the geraniums, the panzies, the hyacinths. Look out, pretty pinks & yellows, here come dark greens & thorns & beetle-eaten holes. Look out fertilizer, here comes road-salt-fed root, look out gardeners, something wild and motherly is taking back the wheel.
-7/10/00, flagstaff |
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"If man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is injury to animals."
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"I believe there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us the way we walk. There is a right way; but we are likely out of heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one."
"Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were proposed to me to dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide for the swamp. How vain, then, have been all your labors, citizens, for me!" |