L'ASBL Belge We are Nature lance une action judiciaire contre la Région Bruxelloise, le procès commence cette semaine, et on a besoin de sous
A vot bon cœur, Msieur Dame, et sinon, faites tourner. En vous remerciant
I remember learning as a kid how similar hemoglobin is to chlorophyll.
And yet we will think we're different - and special - as humans compared to the rest of the natural world.
"Even the blood of plants is the blood of humans—the only significant difference is the magnesium atom in chlorophyll and the iron atom in hemoglobin. One captures light, the other oxygen." Vogt, Benjamin. A New Garden Ethic.
Nature is not outside us, through the window, to be visited on a Sunday afternoon. No, instead, it's something we are.
Loving this passage from Paul Kingsnorth this morning about our relationship with nature.
Everything I learned as a child was fundamentally wrong, I am discovering. Descartes has a lot to answer for. Now I learn: 1) Other animals have the same reactions and emotions as do humans. 2) Plants learn from experience. 3) Fungi cooperate with other fungi, with plants and with animals. #Entanglement #WeAreNature #Metazoa #DescartesWasWrong #Animals #Humans #Plants #Fungi