Daniel Quinn Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Daniel Quinn (Omaha, 1935) è uno scrittore statunitense, conosciuto per il suo libro Ishmael che gli garantì la vittoria del Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award nel 1991, un concorso istituito da Ted Turner per romanzi che proponessero soluzioni originali a problemi globali come la crisi ambientale e la fame nel mondo. Comunemente definito filosofo ambientalista, egli tuttavia rifiuta questa definizione, dato che ritiene implichi una falsa dicotomia (prettamente politica) tra ambiente non-umano e ambiente umano, che in realtà sono la stessa cosa, e tra gente a favore dell'ambiente e contro le persone e gente a favore delle persone e contro l'ambiente. Distinzione secondo lui assurda,[1] perché se si è a favore dell'ambiente si è a favore anche delle persone, dato che esse dipendono dall'ambiente per esistere. Viceversa, se si è contro l'ambiente si è contro anche le persone. Sono anche disponibili delle estensive FAQ in italiano.[4]
Confessions of a recovering environmentalist Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is imagination itself - William Blake Scenes from a younger life # 1: I am 12 years old. I do find my way home; I manage to keep to the path and eventually catch up with my father, who has the map and the compass and the mini Mars-bars. Only later do I realise the complexity of the emotions summoned by a childhood laced with experiences like this. Scenes from a younger life # 2: I am 19 years old. This is Twyford Down, a hilltop east of Winchester. From outside it is impossible to see, and most do not want to. Someone I don’t know suggests we dance the maze. I am 21 years old and I’ve just spent the most exciting two months of my life so far in an Indonesian rainforest. During my trip, there were plenty of all of these things. And I remember the small islands north of Lombok where some of us spent a few days before we came home. What took hold How it ended
Medusa Coils Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life By Daniel Quinn / ishmael.com (Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that occurred in our culture worldwide during the formative millennia of our civilization. What happened during those formative millennia of our civilization? What happened was that Neolithic farming communes turned into villages, villages turned into towns, and towns were gathered into kingdoms. We can hardly be surprised that the forgetting took place. By the time anyone was ready to write the human story, the foundation events of our culture were ancient, ancient developments - but this didn’t make them unimaginable. In the absence of any other theory, it seemed reasonable (even inescapable) to suppose that the human race must have begun with a single human couple, an original man and woman. Q. A. Q.
Shade Gardening: Purple Oxalis -- Oxalis regnellii 'Atropurpurea' Purple Oxalis -- Oxalis regnellii 'Atropurpurea' Going by whatever name you know it as, this is truly a wonderful plant. The Oxalis Genius has over 800 recognized species throughout the world. So considering the length of this article and TIME I will only talk about one, the Purple Leaf Oxalis. This particular species is native in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. It was first cultivated in the United States in 1930. I have admired this plant for a long time. My Mother had given a friend of hers a couple of these plants two years ago. The root or rhizome is an interesting thing in itself. The book on this plant is part-shade (at least protection from the hot afternoon sun), rich moist sandy soil, zone 7-11, height 6"-10" spreading to 12" spacing 9"-12". It's TOUGH, PERSISTENT, and RESILIENT.
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The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard about It But It Completely Affects Your Life By Deep Ecology Hub / deep-ecology-hub.com/ Jan 23, 2014 This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary below. Most disagreements we've read about have turned out to be misunderstandings, so please check the original before coming to conclusions. The Great Forgetting refers to the wealth of knowledge that our culture lost when we adopted our new civilized lifestyle. The knowledge that allowed indigenous cultures to survive, the knowledge that we had once also been tribal and the understanding that we were but one mere culture of thousands. The Great Forgetting accounts for an enormous cultural collapse as once tribal people found themselves in a new and strange mass centralized society. It is only recently that the Great Forgetting has been exposed. The Truth Is Revealed
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) | Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Blog o' Gnosis After eight years of blogging I am finally correcting a major oversight. I can’t very well be a late-Boomer Bay Area native and not write at least once about the Grateful Dead; it just isn’t done. So here goes. The Grateful Dead were once as ubiquitous as tie-dye on Telegraph Ave. Dropping acid and seeing the Dead is what passed for a rite of passage in some circles. The summer I turned 18 provided a fantastic opportunity. This particular summer of 1980 they’d decided to go to Alaska for one reason only: the Dead were playing Anchorage on the Summer Solstice! I didn’t know anyone else going on the trip, but that did not deter me in the least. Three girls my age from Texas were my first disappointment. I did make some friends, but there was no real easy bonding on this trip. We stayed one night near Mt. When we got to Anchorage, our first order of business was to find tickets to the show. What I remember most about the concert was the bad sound.
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity - The Automatic Earth Caters Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South Africa Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back … Springsteen, Atlantic City “Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding on low entropy from its environment – that is, by exchanging high-entropy outputs for low-entropy inputs. The same statement would hold verbatium as a physical description of our economic process. A corollary of this statement is that an organism cannot live in a medium of its own waste products.” What drives our economies is waste. First of all, don’t tell me you’re trying to stop the ongoing extinction of nature and wildlife on this planet, or the destruction of life in general. This is the big one. The latest WWF Living Planet Report shows us that the planet is a whole lot less alive than it used to be. Most.
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