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-Exercise:\\ 
-mountain meets mountain \\ 
-one was made by human,\\  
-the other by something older. \\ 
-the meeting is brokered by a human.\\  
-they meet at a neutral boundary \\ 
-(an altered body of water)\\ 
-wait. \\ 
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-—Erika Hanson 
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 ==== Nature's Sublime ==== ==== Nature's Sublime ====
  
-Excerpts from //"Nature's Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism"// by **Robert S. Corrington**+Excerpts from //[[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739182130/Nature's-Sublime-An-Essay-in-Aesthetic-Naturalism|"Nature's Sublime: An Essay in Aesthetic Naturalism"]]// by **Robert S. Corrington**
  
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 Both the artist and the saint are fully aware of the duality of their lives, that they live in a public world that cannot, in principle, understand the other and deeper world that claims their true allegiance. They are split and know it. Part of the force of their lives is that they must struggle heroically to heal this split through the means available to their psychological type. For the artist it is, of course, through art works that are publically available for appraisal and assimilation. For the saint, on the other hand, it is through a kind of higher action that is actually a non-action, a kind of Gelassenheit, or mode of attunement that harmonizes the various components of the self into one higher harmony. Both the artist and the saint are fully aware of the duality of their lives, that they live in a public world that cannot, in principle, understand the other and deeper world that claims their true allegiance. They are split and know it. Part of the force of their lives is that they must struggle heroically to heal this split through the means available to their psychological type. For the artist it is, of course, through art works that are publically available for appraisal and assimilation. For the saint, on the other hand, it is through a kind of higher action that is actually a non-action, a kind of Gelassenheit, or mode of attunement that harmonizes the various components of the self into one higher harmony.
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 Fungi are ideal guides. Fungi have always been recalcitrant to the iron cage of self-replication. Like bacteria, some are given to exchanging genes in nonreproductive encounters (“horizontal gene transfer”); many also seem averse to keeping their genetic material sorted out as “individuals” and “species,” not to speak of “populations.”  Fungi are ideal guides. Fungi have always been recalcitrant to the iron cage of self-replication. Like bacteria, some are given to exchanging genes in nonreproductive encounters (“horizontal gene transfer”); many also seem averse to keeping their genetic material sorted out as “individuals” and “species,” not to speak of “populations.” 
  
-—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World+<cite>Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World</cite>
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 We are all inhabitants of the same mudscape, the same geological sludge, as it were.  Anthropocene landscapes of death and extinction are, however, also inhabited by emergent and unexpected constellations of life, nonlife, and afterlife. Before mud becomes our only future, we need to learn from stones to notice all the forms of life and possibility that exist in the midst of death: that, as I see it, is the message and the magic of the geology of the present.  We are all inhabitants of the same mudscape, the same geological sludge, as it were.  Anthropocene landscapes of death and extinction are, however, also inhabited by emergent and unexpected constellations of life, nonlife, and afterlife. Before mud becomes our only future, we need to learn from stones to notice all the forms of life and possibility that exist in the midst of death: that, as I see it, is the message and the magic of the geology of the present. 
  
-—Nils Bubandt, Haunted Geologies, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet+<cite>Nils Bubandt, Haunted Geologies, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet</cite>
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 We seek to cultivate a sensibility that attunes us not only to the “now” of the weather, but towards ourselves and the world as weather bodies, mutually caught up in the whirlwind of a weather-world, in the thickness of climate-time. In short, as weathering. (...) And if we understand our-selves as weathering, intra-actively made and unmade by the chill of a too-cold winter, the discomfort of a too-hot sun, then we can also attune our-selves to the pasts that are contracted in changing temperatures, rising sea levels, increasingly desiccated earths. We attune ourselves to the singularities of its intra-actions, recognizing the multitude of  bodies (including our own) that are all co-emerging in the making of these weather-times. We recognize our own implications in the climatic conditions around us, thick with co-labored temporalites...” We seek to cultivate a sensibility that attunes us not only to the “now” of the weather, but towards ourselves and the world as weather bodies, mutually caught up in the whirlwind of a weather-world, in the thickness of climate-time. In short, as weathering. (...) And if we understand our-selves as weathering, intra-actively made and unmade by the chill of a too-cold winter, the discomfort of a too-hot sun, then we can also attune our-selves to the pasts that are contracted in changing temperatures, rising sea levels, increasingly desiccated earths. We attune ourselves to the singularities of its intra-actions, recognizing the multitude of  bodies (including our own) that are all co-emerging in the making of these weather-times. We recognize our own implications in the climatic conditions around us, thick with co-labored temporalites...”
  
-—Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker, Weathering+<cite>Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker, Weathering</cite>
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 For the so-called environmental crisis is now more our everyday reality as climate, as even newspapers move from discussing natural disasters to the normalization of “weird weather.” As such it feels too ordinary in its weirdness to be a crisis. Moreover, the force of destruction is simply the political and social organization of human life. For the so-called environmental crisis is now more our everyday reality as climate, as even newspapers move from discussing natural disasters to the normalization of “weird weather.” As such it feels too ordinary in its weirdness to be a crisis. Moreover, the force of destruction is simply the political and social organization of human life.
  
-—Anthony Paul Smith, A Non-Philosophical Theory of Nature+<cite>Anthony Paul Smith, A Non-Philosophical Theory of Nature</cite>
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 We're going to gradually normalize climate change, one bit of weirdness at a time. We're going to gradually normalize climate change, one bit of weirdness at a time.
  
-—Venkatesh Rao+<cite>Venkatesh Rao</cite>
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