wide open

 

 

stretching out, wide open, in the rain and dim light,

quietly [and deeply] at easy /// Clematis

 

 

 

rainy creatures

 

 

little movements

absorbed into perceptions

his finely-stratified

rich world

searching for a shelter

rainy creature

night creatures

 

 

 

 

 

otherness

«As I catalog the differences between plants and animals,

the horizon stretches out before me faster than I can

travel and forces me to acknowledge that perhaps I was

destined to study plants for decades only in order to more

fully appreciate that they are beings we can never truly 

understand. Only when we begin to grasp this deep

otherness can we be sure we are no longer projecting

ourselves onto plants. Finally we can begin to recognize

what is actually happening.»

(Hope Jahren, Lab Girl)