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When I say "connect with nature" I don't just mean the aesthetic forests with deer and beautiful flowers.

I mean the weeds growing through concrete, the fungus that grows on the rotten shed, the nettles that always seem to return and the scary, spindly cellar spider in the corner of the bathroom.

Nature is not always pretty or magical - the pigeons and seagulls you swat at are nature too, the wasps and flies that hover by your meals are animals too, store-bought strawberries and the leaves that fall from your neighbour's tree are not all that different from the Giant Sequoias and it's seeds.

If you want to connect and understand nature, I mean *really* connect to it, in it's entirety, you have to seek out and learn about the ugly, scary and mundane things as well. You don't have to like it, just don't forget that it's there.

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My biggest pet peeve about sustainability discourse is that, yeah, a handful of companies are fucking us all over, and yeah, we need fundamental change coming from the government. But also you need to understand that you can't have both things:

You can't have zero single use plastic and only sustainable materials and expect to be able to afford brand new clothes every month.

You can't have an increase in workers rights protections and expect to still get things you order online delivered to your house in a couple of days.

You can't have meat production reduced to the point where it's not environmental destructive and expect to be eating meat more than a couple times a week at most.

We NEED big scale change but that WILL significantly affect your lifestyle. You need to stop living in a fantasy world where fast fashion prices or eating animal products daily can ever coexist with sustainability.

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did you guys know that when you are in bed at night time, you can turn on a lamp, put a really soft blanket around your shoulders and read your book?? and sometimes it will rain??? did you know that???? the wonders of this life do not cease!

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I wondered why green is so associated with hope and then I remembered being 8 and seeing a little plant sprout after a few days of waiting and. Yeah. I get it now.

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I am gently taking your hands and begging you, BEGGING YOU, to understand that humans are not inherently harmful to the planet. We are animals who are part of the ecosystem. We belong here. This is our home. We belong here. You belong here. Yes, you belong here.

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Because I absolutely love joan_de_art’s sustainable city series I’mma share it in one post since I see the art scattered about.

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In the late 2000s, so maybe 2007-09, there was a girl (12 or so) who was hailed as the next big fashion icon. I remember she had short hair and would wear chaotically colourful outfits — the trend at the time, with big glasses and hats she made herself. I’m desperately trying to find out what happened to her, but I can’t remember her name and googling didn’t work so far. I think her name was Tilly or something?

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Four in the Morning

by Wislawa Szymborska tr. Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire

The hour from night to day.

The hour from side to side.

The hour for those past thirty.

The hour swept clean to the crowing of cocks. The hour when earth betrays us. The hour when wind blows from extinguished stars. The hour of and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us.

The hollow hour. Blank, empty. The very pit of all other hours.

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning -- three cheers for the ants. And let five o'clock come if we’re to go on living.

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This is so true

One of the foremost reasons I like solarpunk is that in the mainstream, being eco-friendly is about sacrifice. Don’t buy new things, don’t buy plastic, don’t take unnecessary trips—etc. It’s not sustainable unless you’re a saint. It’s exhausting to abstain from consumerism without having alternatives like the things Solarpunk emphasizes: community, resources held in common, sustainable hobbies like gardening and mending (and all other sorts of repair), free and accessible public transportation, etc. Solarpunk is about creating a world where being eco-friendly is about joy, not deprivation.

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I think my secret identical twin made this..

from rev0lverl0ver on Pinterest

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From an interview with Ursula K Le Guin

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Anyone with culinary inclinations should know that we have the more-or-less complete text of a cookbook from the Roman Empire. It often neglects to mention amounts, and some of the ingredients might not be so easy to find nowadays, but --

4. Rose Wine⁠ (Rosatum). Make rose wine in this manner: rose petals, the lower white part removed, sewed into a linen bag and immersed in wine for seven days. Thereupon add a sack of new petals which allow to draw for another seven days. Again remove the old petals and replace them by fresh ones for another week then strain the wine through the colander. Before serving, add honey sweetening to taste. Take care that only the best petals free from dew be used for soaking.

11. To Keep Cooked Sides of Pork or Beef or Tenderloins (Callum porcinum vel bubulum et unguellae coctae ut diu durent). Place them in a pickle of mustard, vinegar, salt and honey, covering meat entirely. And when ready to use you'll be surprised.

135. Elderberry Custard or Pie (Patina de sambuco⁠). A dish of elderberries, either hot or cold, is made in this manner:⁠ take elderberries, wash them; cook in water, skim and strain. Prepare a dish in which to cook the custard;⁠ crush 6 scruples of pepper with a little broth; add this to the elderberry pulp with another glass of broth, a glass of wine, a glass of raisin wine and as much as 4 ounces of oil. Put the dish in the hot bath and stir the contents. As soon as it is getting warm, quickly break 6 eggs and whipping them, incorporate them, in order to thicken the fluid. When thick enough sprinkle with pepper and serve up.

146. Vegetable Dinner (Patella ex olisatro⁠). Any kind of vegetables or herbs blanched off in water with a little soda; squeeze out the water arrange in a saucepan. Grind pepper, lovage, coriander, satury, onion with wine, broth, vinegar and oil; add this to the vegetables, stew all until nearly done and tie with roux. Sprinkle with thyme, finely ground pepper and serve. Any kind of vegetable⁠ may be prepared in the above manner, if you wish.

216. Roast Crane or Duck (Aliter gruem vel anatem assam). Pour over the roast bird this gravy: crush pepper, lovage, origany with broth, honey, a little vinegar and oil; boil it well, thicken with roux, strain. In this sauce place small pieces of parboiled pumpkin or colocasium⁠ so that they are finished in the sauce; also cook with it chicken feet and giblets all of which serve in a chafing dish, sprinkle with fine pepper and serve.

251. Spayed Sow's Womb⁠ (Vulvae steriles). Sterile sow's womb (also udder and belly) is prepared in this manner: take⁠ laser from Cyrene or Parthia, vinegar and broth.

289. Fresh Ham (Musteis⁠ petasonem⁠). A fresh ham is cooked with 2 pounds of barley and 25 figs. When done skin, glaze the surface with a fire shovel full of glowing coals, spread honey over it, or, what's better: put it in the oven covered with honey. When it has a nice color, put in a sauce pan raisin wine, pepper, a bunch of rue and pure wine to taste. When this sauce is done, pour half of it over the ham and in the other half soak specially made ginger bread⁠ The remnant of the sauce after most of it is thoroughly soaked into the bread, add to the ham.

323. Milk-fed Snails (Cochleas lacte pastas). Take snails and sponge them; pull them out of the shells by the membrane and place them for a day in a vessel with milk and salt.⁠ Renew the milk daily. Hourly⁠ clean the snails of all refuse, and when they are so fat that they can no longer retire to their shells fry them in oil and serve them with wine sauce. In a similar way they may be fed on a milk porridge.

435. Another Sauce for Boiled Fish (Aliter in pisce elixo). Prepare the fish carefully; in the mortar put salt, coriander seed, crush and mix well; turn the fish therein, put it in a pan, cover it and seal it with plaster⁠ cook it in the oven. When done retire the fish from the pan sprinkle with strong vinegar and serve.

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Swallows everywhere

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It's not a virtue to focus totally on your own peace and disregard problems around you. Ironically, it's also not a virtue to stew in your own anxiety.

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PLease reblog to spread it so I can get some answers and opinions

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In cities like Ankara, Lyon, and Belgrade, artist Ememem continues to repair cracks, potholes, and broken infrastructure—not with concrete, but with intricate mosaics. This new collection includes a fractured stairway reborn in Zagreb and a patterned burst around a manhole cover in Reims. Each work feels site-specific, shaped by the damage itself.

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the world may be a dark place sometimes but there are also 1200 year old paw prints from a happy kitty cat out there