mindscape
( learning & nature )
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
William Wordsworth
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“Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.”
Robert Burns
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What is to be done with political ecology? Nothing. What is to be done? Political ecology!
Bruno Latour
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"Honoring the future begins with honoring the past.”
Stewart Brand
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“The scene was over like a dream, but the dream had left proofs and traces of its passage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Time, the deer, is in Hallaig Wood”
“The dead have been seen alive,”
‘Hallaig’ by Sorley MacLean,
translated by Seamus Heaneyhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview35
“Hallaig”, by Martyn Bennett, on the album ‘Bothy Culture’
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“Open the doors!
Light of the day, shine in;
light of the mind, shine out!”
Edwin Morgan
From the poem “Open the Doors” created for
the opening of the new Scottish Parliament in 2004.
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“Knowing another is endless.
The thing to be known grows with the knowing.”
Nan Shepherd
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“One single picture―one frame―does not tell the story. The single-frame picture of a caterpillar does not foretell or imply the transformation of that creature, first, into the chrysalis stage and, much later, into the butterfly phase of its life. Nor does one picture of a butterfly tell the viewer that the butterfly can fly.”
Buckminster Fuller
Top 1 ― sketch: personal ‘idea’ sketch in study notes. If all, or many, things are connected, through time too, how might they be shown in a single picture? Is a ‘single-frame’ helpful or not?
Bottom 1 ― video: Painted Lady Butterfly on Autumn Stonecrop Sedum, mum & dad’s garden, autumn. This little butterfly has flown at least 2000 km from southwest USA or Mexico to be in Calgary. The honey bees are from a neighbour’s hives. Watch what the Painted Lady is doing with proboscis and antennae.
Bottom 2 ― photo collage: The wheel of time and the world tree. This tree is located by the Bishop’s Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland.
