qotd

[low_delta]

Humans - despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments - owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

Comments

[seamusd.livejournal.com]

don't forget the sun and, of course, sex

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

Yay, topsoil!
I've already said elsewhere that I think sophistication is overrated.

I'll add here that I think topsoil and rain are underrated and it's this species problem with our priorities that annoys me.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

there would be no topsoil and it would not rain, if there were no sun.....

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

So when that's gone, we will be too....

back atcha!

[cherie.livejournal.com]

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."...Wendell Berry

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Today is the first day in almost a month (literally!) when it hasn't rained.

Do you like Renaissance? If you've never heard of them, they were a progressive rock band in the 70's. I just found a tape of their Live in Carnegie Hall album, so I can tape it for you. It's really great stuff, similar in some ways to King Crimson and early Genesis. I hadn't listened to this tape in over a decade; I completely forgot I had it.