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Metaphors of Nature
World + People

Metaphors of Nature

[...] currently accelerating planetary catastrophe – involving loss of biodiversity, pollution of air, water, soil [...]
Julia Fiedorczuk
The Tales of a Belarusian Scheherazade
Art + Stories

The Tales of a Belarusian Scheherazade

[...] the northern winds blew over the naked fields as if they were sandy steppes and brushed away the scorched soil [...]
Mikołaj Gliński
Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic
Art + Stories, World + People

Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic

[...] Raindrops were associated with divine semen that fertilized the soil; one of Indra’s nicknames is the ‘Bull [...]
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Bushidō, or the Idealized Way
Art + Stories

Bushidō, or the Idealized Way

[...] This is another myth about Japanese warriors, which found its way into the extremely fertile soil of European [...]
Piotr Żelazny
The Gospel According to Pinker
World + People

The Gospel According to Pinker

[...] They were rooted in the 19th-century counter-enlightenment: the valorization of blood and soil, of nationalism [...]
Tomasz Stawiszyński
To Everything, Tern Tern Tern
World + People

To Everything, Tern Tern Tern

[...] I sat down on a mound with dry straws on the surface and soft soil underneath. [...]
Birna Anna Björnsdóttir
The Lost Art of Rest
Soul + Body

The Lost Art of Rest

[...] reference I had in my head was Land’s End, a literal end of the world – the southernmost strip of British soil [...]
Paulina Wilk
The Wisdom of Jesus and the Yoga Siddhas
Art + Stories

The Wisdom of Jesus and the Yoga Siddhas

[...] (It) is the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes [...]
Marshall Govindan Satchidananda
Spring at Walden Pond
Soul + Body

Spring at Walden Pond

[...] In the siliceous matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer soil and [...]
Henry David Thoreau