an archive of matters
encounterings and
intractions steadly being
sensously navigating
at tune
ment internal and e(x)ternal.
into self
------- the relational field
There is so much beauty and comfort in being in love and just being
Marcellus Williams
not to be
a single be ing
for soil in part is a creation of life, born of a marvellous interaction of life and inert matter eons ago. The parent materials are gathered together as volcanoes poured them out in fiery streams, as running waters running over the bare rocks of the continents wore away even the hardest granite, and as the chiesels of frost and ice split and shattered the rocks. Then living things begin to work their creative magic, and little by little these inert materials became soil.
Lichens, the rocks first covering, aided the process of disintegration by means of acid secretion and made a lodging place for other life. Mosses took hold in these little pockets of soil - soil formed by crumbling bits of lichen, by the husks of minute insect life, by the debris of a fauna beginning its emergence from the sea. Not only did life help form soil but living things exist within it in incredible abundance and diversity; if this were not so, the soil would be dead and sterile thing. The soil exists in a state of constant change, taking part in cycles with no beginning and no end. New materials are being contributed as rocks disintegrate, as organic matter decays, as nitrogen and other gases are brought down in rain from the skies. -----Simultaneously, materials are being taken away, harrowed temporarily for use by living creatures. Suble and vastly important chemical changes are constantly in progress, converting elements derived from air and water into forms that are suitable for the support of plant life, and in all these changes living organisms are active agents.
---Rachel Carson---- Mans war against nature
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie