3/ Nation-states gone mad for the illusion of separateness? Where we might fail as ambassadors, the trees do not, faithful as they are to the concrete, functional integrity of a deeper planetary reality of unity, mutualism, resilience, harmony, beauty and, yes, reconciliation.
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[end/ Other moderns note Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism", representing a trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker - the co-evolutionary helix of the Heaven of Earth, personified.]](/media/asn-1834461899205083335-GXVRXO7bwAAkEFt.jpg)
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: Which also includes this tweet: [end/ Other moderns note Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism", representing a trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker - the co-evolutionary helix of the Heaven of Earth, personified.]
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Two tweet excerpt of thread here: 1/ My enduring relationship with Russian biodiversity and, indivisibly, the Russian biodiversity community, began around arrangements I made for a visit to the Vavilov Institute in St. Petersburg by the Seed Ambassadors team, back in '06-'07. #EarthDay 2/ The visit, pilgrimage. Russian biodiversity stewards are among our highest heroes. Vavilov? Murdered by Stalin, where a cluster of his scientists chose starvation to death during the siege of Leningrad, rather than consuming the life-saving grains and potatoes in their care. And two tweet excerpt here:
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Photograph of medal awarded the Oregon-based Seed Ambassadors Project for services to applied biodiversity by the Director of the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, December 2006. More details here:
3/ Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural union, synthesis and synergy, grounded in the Real, affording us access to an unprecedented regenerative partnership.
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