Beautiful and terrible in one go, Margaret. But I'm really glad you're using this particular art form to build focus on these astonishing biological structures and humanity's stumbling role (so far) in respecting and sustaining them.
Thanks Andy. It’s been a long labor of love & care with precious little recognition from the science world. Like your own work I’m increasingly interested in the projects of maintenance & sustainability.
That we bipeds have destroyed so much, I feel is due to the many layers of activity, actions, hobbies, interests, experiences, living, learning, sports, and a thousand more actions that superimpose on the thin layer of LIFE wrapping the planet, that we bipeds engage in without a thought for that essential base.
I'm one of those bipeds and I eat, travel, rent a house, have a Lego collection, a laptop, mobile phone, embroidery silks, books, TV, and the rest. All these activities and actions depend on the Good Earth to provide.
My actions multiplied by how many? Trillions of small actions, pin pricks, that puncture the living fabric basis of our lives. Maybe if many many of us stop two or three things? If we stop starting new things? If we stop expanding things? If we stop wanting more than we need?
:Your beau;tiful art work and your remarks suich as power and powerlessness being 2 sides of the same behavior were thought-provoking. Thank you.
Carolyn R.
Thanks Carolyn - it seems we humans are caught between the power of our own power and the inability to transcend it.
Incredible! Yet so sad these may one day be the only reminder of the GBR-- shown like photo albums to our grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Beautiful and terrible in one go, Margaret. But I'm really glad you're using this particular art form to build focus on these astonishing biological structures and humanity's stumbling role (so far) in respecting and sustaining them.
Thanks Andy. It’s been a long labor of love & care with precious little recognition from the science world. Like your own work I’m increasingly interested in the projects of maintenance & sustainability.
That we bipeds have destroyed so much, I feel is due to the many layers of activity, actions, hobbies, interests, experiences, living, learning, sports, and a thousand more actions that superimpose on the thin layer of LIFE wrapping the planet, that we bipeds engage in without a thought for that essential base.
I'm one of those bipeds and I eat, travel, rent a house, have a Lego collection, a laptop, mobile phone, embroidery silks, books, TV, and the rest. All these activities and actions depend on the Good Earth to provide.
My actions multiplied by how many? Trillions of small actions, pin pricks, that puncture the living fabric basis of our lives. Maybe if many many of us stop two or three things? If we stop starting new things? If we stop expanding things? If we stop wanting more than we need?
Maybe then we can save a tenth of everything.
thanks Rita
Thanks to Andy Revkin for the lovely cross-post on his-always-pertinent "Sustain What" Substack, which I highly recommend