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“Nothing is good in and of itself; everything must be good for something.”
“We have become increasingly waterproofed: conceptually sealed against subtle and various relations with rivers, even as they continue to irrigate our bodies, thoughts, songs and stories. Rivers run through people as surely as they run through places.” pp.20
— Aug 05, 2025 01:55PM
“We have become increasingly waterproofed: conceptually sealed against subtle and various relations with rivers, even as they continue to irrigate our bodies, thoughts, songs and stories. Rivers run through people as surely as they run through places.” pp.20
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23 Sept
In Rivers Remember, her book about the 2015 floods, Krupa Ge describes the systematic injuring and forgetting of Chennai's rivers over centuries. 'We displaced them,' she writes…
But Chennai's rivers, Ge continues, are beings with long memories - memories which reawaken in times of flood. 'We didn't think they'd remember,' she writes ruefully, "but they did'
— Sep 24, 2025 05:48AM
In Rivers Remember, her book about the 2015 floods, Krupa Ge describes the systematic injuring and forgetting of Chennai's rivers over centuries. 'We displaced them,' she writes…
But Chennai's rivers, Ge continues, are beings with long memories - memories which reawaken in times of flood. 'We didn't think they'd remember,' she writes ruefully, "but they did'
Sophia
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27 Aug
It was on Ecuador's ice-clad volcanoes… 220 years earlier that the explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt developed his understanding of the natural world as an interconnected web of life, in which nothing existed in isolation and humanity was not the central actor, merely a node among many in an immense, rhizomatic network…
Everything is connected to everything else, I think, relation is life.
— Sep 24, 2025 05:42AM
It was on Ecuador's ice-clad volcanoes… 220 years earlier that the explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt developed his understanding of the natural world as an interconnected web of life, in which nothing existed in isolation and humanity was not the central actor, merely a node among many in an immense, rhizomatic network…
Everything is connected to everything else, I think, relation is life.
