Post #3742501
2026-07-11 13:41 UTC
“Perhaps it would be useful now and then to consider the large, collective migrations of various creatures as active expressions of the Earth itself. To consider them as slow gestures of a living geology, improvisational experiments that gradually stabilized into habits now necessary to the ongoing metabolism of the sphere. For truly, are not these cyclical pilgrimages—each a huge, creaturely hajj—also pulsations within the broad body of Earth? Are they not ways that divergent places or ecosystems communicate with one another, trading vital qualities essential to their continued flourishing?” […]
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@ira@beige.party 2026-07-11 13:43
“This circulation, this systole and diastole, is one of the surest signs that Earth is alive—a rhythmic pulse of silvery, glacier-fed brilliance pouring through multiple arteries into the wide body of the ocean, circulating and growing there, only to return by various veins to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life.” […] 4/