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In the end all the waiting for buses in the dark and rain was a really good motivation for commuting to work by bicycle, when even if it’s raining you still feel like at least you’re on the move, and alive, and in control of when you’re
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“the brain registers social pain in the same area of the brain and to the same degree as it does when it registers physical pain. We know from what we mentioned above that life-threatening situations trigger the amygdala and ‘limbic reactions’, and we also know that social pain and emotional pain can also trigger the same reactions to a lesser or greater degree.”
― Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain friendly language learning
― Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain friendly language learning
“Studies show time and again that cooperation is commonly chosen in groups, even when betrayal of others could lead to a better individual reward.”
― Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
― Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
“All in all, I loved Bratislava, and was determined to stay if I could. The city had a vibrancy to it that I’d not experienced elsewhere; a strong sense of its history combined with a passionate determination to free itself of any remaining shackles of the past and forge a new identity. I felt an affinity in that.”
― With Love From Bratislava
― With Love From Bratislava
“Death may be knocking on my door, but I’m not getting out of this glorious bath to answer it.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
“Plants are attuned to one another’s strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. A balance that can also be achieved in the simple beauty of a garden. In the complex society of ants. There’s grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals. We can find this in ourselves, in what we do alone, but also in what we enact together. Our own roots and systems interlace and tangle, grow into and away from one another and back again in a million subtle moments.”
― Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
― Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
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