EVOLVING ENTANGLED SELECTED WORKS
“When within the mouth of the river, I was interested by observing how slowly the water of the sea and river mixed. The latter, muddy and discoloured from it’s less specific gravity, floated on the surface of the salt water. This was curiously exhibited in the wake of the vessel, where a line of blue water was seen mingling in little eddies, with the adjoining fluid.”
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, July 5th 1832
“No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
Heraclitus, 500BCE
“ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts...There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter”
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Shifting baseline syndrome: Each generation accepts the state of the ecosystem they encountered in their childhood as normal, not realising the deterioration that has already occurred.
“ Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. She speaks to man in a voice that is at once audible and intelligible; she breathes a spirit into all created things”
Alexander von Humboldt, Views of Nature, 1808
“ Parle, O parle, mer, parle,
Sea speak to me, speak
to me, your silver you light
Where hole opened up in Alaska
Gray — shh—wind in
The canyon wind in the rain
Wind in the rolling rash….”
Jack Kerouac, extract from ‘Sea’. Big Sur 1963
THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD.
“ We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world”
David Abram
“ What’s scary about being lost in the forest…is catching a glimpse of yourself from the point of view of the trees”
Timothy Morton