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Green Space Urban Box Part 1 by Amanda Gilbert
May 3rd, 2006 8:47 AM
Power
Nature intends to continue, and the formidable might of millions of attempts is the sort of power that I have trouble comprehending sometimes. I could not build something as complicated as Thai basil, nor as delicious, but I can wield the power of the basil seed with barely a thought or a gesture, and it builds itself. To have things that must be built and paid for, that is not power. Things that build themselves, that is power.
Beyond Dualism
Maybe there is a soul and maybe not. I don't subscribe to the idea myself, but I can't deny the inherent mystery of you people. But animism has been a formative part of us, and animism is more than just body and spirit. To utter the phrases "fox spirit" and "water spirit" creates a linguistic sameness that dulls the very concept of animism. Foxes have a water aspect, and we have fox aspects, and water has a cunning way about it that might be from absorbing a little fox DNA way back when.
Discontinuity
Nature doesn't intend to continue, I was wrong. Life intends to continue. Nature disrupts, because life does not continue without change and disruption. More often that not, change is drastic, but the patchiness of the (dis)continuum of Nature is where second-thousandth chances happen.
Emergence
Nature is unexpected.
Attraction
And everything leans towards each other, and towards that unexpected.
Nature intends to continue, and the formidable might of millions of attempts is the sort of power that I have trouble comprehending sometimes. I could not build something as complicated as Thai basil, nor as delicious, but I can wield the power of the basil seed with barely a thought or a gesture, and it builds itself. To have things that must be built and paid for, that is not power. Things that build themselves, that is power.
Beyond Dualism
Maybe there is a soul and maybe not. I don't subscribe to the idea myself, but I can't deny the inherent mystery of you people. But animism has been a formative part of us, and animism is more than just body and spirit. To utter the phrases "fox spirit" and "water spirit" creates a linguistic sameness that dulls the very concept of animism. Foxes have a water aspect, and we have fox aspects, and water has a cunning way about it that might be from absorbing a little fox DNA way back when.
Discontinuity
Nature doesn't intend to continue, I was wrong. Life intends to continue. Nature disrupts, because life does not continue without change and disruption. More often that not, change is drastic, but the patchiness of the (dis)continuum of Nature is where second-thousandth chances happen.
Emergence
Nature is unexpected.
Attraction
And everything leans towards each other, and towards that unexpected.