( via / me )

"Thousands of years of empirical fire experience, coded in lore, story, song lines and oral wisdom, were dismissed, in effect dissolving humanity’s hard-won understanding of how fire works in thousands of landscapes."

" 'Do not be afraid,' said Frog. 'I will be with you on the sled. It will be a fine, fast ride. Toad, you sit in front. I will sit right behind you.' " --@FrogandToadbot

"This is the kind of house where you live in your strange dreams where the world is ending in some sort of vague cataclysm you can only watch from the balcony, and then the house becomes all you have left of the world."

"I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing happens!
Nothing….Silence….Waves….

—Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?"

—Juan Ramón Jiménez via @bernardtjoy

The alligator moat. (via Mefi)