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RT @nick_routledge: @Plough Work the Garden, and the integrity of a fully-enfleshed, participative, symbiotic conversation with the eternal pagan substrate of meaning itself, the wholeness, beauty, goodness and harmony of the total biological and cultural process we call Life, pours forth into our lives.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2021

8/ "Work, motion, life," notes William Bryant Logan, "All rise from the dirt and stand upon it as upon a launching pad." In the act of reconciling our individual autobiographies to a larger, earthly web of relations, we enfold ourselves within the evolving Story of Planet Earth.

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Quoted by@seenunseenmag @profntwright 14/ This is not pantheism. It is incarnation taken seriously. The living earth was always part of creation's praise—not temple backdrop but its deeper ground, bearing witness before a single stone was laid or a single word written. Its groaning is not scenery but testimony.Quoted by@PhilipReichert @TaraAnnThieke @olivertraldi Key (field-proven) terms giving the impression I know far more than I do about what I'm holding forth on? 'Morphology', 'phenotype', 'epigenetics', 'species-incompatibility mechanisms', and a new fave, 'the modern [Asian pear genome] represents a pretty tight [pyriform] cluster'.