Rewilding

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A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

Icebergs, intelligence, and the infinite

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Taylor Gage
Nov 21, 2024
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a very tiny part of a vast and incredible universe….We’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery—not of nature, but of ourselves.

-Maria Popova

I recently watched a video, filmed a few years ago, where an iceberg capsizes and tosses two Slovenian ice climbers into the Arctic Ocean (they make it out unscathed). Something about the image of this scene has been ringing through my body since I saw it, and feels so strangely relevant, like it’s some blatant metaphor for so much, some perspective that I so needed to see, and maybe you do, too.

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