jay kuppermann

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For the natural world to survive, it needs long-term empathy. The future of the planet’s health is an abstraction to almost everyone, and the longer the arc of time beyond our lifetime, the greater the abstraction.
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods
The collective crucible of law, biology, beauty, awe, common sense and something we can recognize as intelligence can forge humans into creatures able and willing to give trees like the redwoods their own due.
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods
I use the word “seminal” in its etymological sense here, as in, “from seed.”
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods
To be born is to die is to be born, as the trees engage in a quiet but pitched battle. As the stem and roots break down into mulch and duff, enough organic material assembles to support other life.
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods
“Scientists are driven not only by intellectual pursuits but also by astonishment — and by its cousin, desire. To claim that science is impartial and bloodless is incorrect.”
The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods
Contemporary globalisation is a bulldozer on speed, razing rainforests, turning tribal peoples into urban slumdwellers, simplifying ecosystems and obliterating traditional livelihoods.
Globalisation lessens our world but we do have alternatives | Aeon Essays
To pass through this phase and enter true adulthood is at once to accept the limitedness of life and also its potential length, the weight of supporting yourself year after year after year, a burden that, if you’re lucky, art can ease, but one that it can never alleviate in the way that your teenage self imagined it could.
Art Is the New Puberty | David Leo Rice