Jane Barlow

Long-eared Hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus), family Erinaceidae, order Eulipotyphla, found in parts of Central Asia

You have to breathe. The world comes into you, right into your lungs and into your blood stream, through your heart. Without this contact to the environment we die. So the fantasy that I am complete in myself is false. I am dependent and life is interdependent and as long as we cling to this idea of automonous existence our delusion brings us into inefficient and unfulfilling interactions with the world

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf