Essay To Read
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Walking amid a tangle of ancient Sitka spruces and cedars on the island of Gwaii Haanas in British Columbia, Robert Moor wonders how being in the presence of old-growth trees can help us feel, rather than intellectualize, not only the deep past, but also our responsibility to the future.
Dendrochronology
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You can not take a photograph of a living Forest.
And why I don't carry a camera.
One can reproduce a tiny bit of it, for 1/60 of a second. But that's not the Forest.
The only media that comes close, is poetry.
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
― Roland Barthes
same applies to mistaking concepts for being/becoming 🔬🔭💰🔌⏱️🔮