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@awaicekhan Ah, I note your profile. Awakened to Divine Beauty, as a child, by a pear tree, on the edge of Lake Dal, I've spent decades around the USDA pear repository in Oregon. I've also been seeking a connection into rural Kashmiri pear culture. A planetary genome to share. Can you help?

Image, in the style of Kashmir. And calligraphy, reading: Food will Thrive Only Until The Woods Survive -Nund Rishi
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Image, in the style of Kashmir. And calligraphy, reading: Food will Thrive Only Until The Woods Survive -Nund Rishi

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 Nov 2021

@antoniogm Functional examples of such bio-cultural, diversity-composites exist at the eco-system level. Their most refined expressions affirm the co-evolutionary integrity of seamlessly wedding inter-spiritual to biotic realms. Beauty, the heaven of earth made real, an emergent property.

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Quoted byend/ Nund Rishi’s tomb lies in Budgam, heart of Kashmir’s pear country. Where justice takes root, fruit follows. Where peace is incarnate, it grows branches. Where messianism is neighborhood-made, mercy ripens. In the shade of trees where many tongues pray, a new world begins.Quoted by@Himalayologist For another, a core emphasis on the personally-realized architectonics of a just and fair society ("If you dream of Paradise, you must work for it") accented a rootsy realism. Addressing hunger, for example, Rishi Sufis were, distinctively, celebrated planters of fruit trees.Quoted by@Himalayologist @neeleshmisra 💚 A visit, as a teen, to Kashmir, changed me. Already a world-traveler, I was profoundly enchanted by the land, its culture and peoples. I decided, then, to return. Great alas, it never came to be. But I sense I was somehow anointed in and still carry the spirit of Kashmiriyat.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @ApplesandPeople The path of global reconciliation and peace necessarily passes directly through the world's most densely militarized zone. Three nuclear powers also vie for it. And, proven, its coincidental history patterning a supreme expression of syncretic planetary consciousness and culture.Quoted by@ApplesandPeople The path of global reconciliation and peace necessarily passes directly through the world's most densely militarized zone. Three nuclear powers also vie for it. And, proven, its coincidental history patterning a supreme expression of syncretic planetary consciousness and culture.