Robin Artisson, An Carow Gwyn "The primal interanimistic life-ways of our world never dealt with any notion of ascendancy or spiritual evolution. There is no primal or pre-civilized story that depicts an epic collective destiny that human beings must arrive at in some future age, and after countless trials and 'lessons learned.' Nature or the life-world is always presented as a timeless and perpetual home, not a temporary stage to be overcome or left behind. Instead of dreaming of evolving, we should be involving ourselves with the many persons and powers around us, creating respectful interaction systems and healthy alliances." Robin Artisson, An Carow Gwyn Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey "Deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons instead of minutes, months and years. Deep time is kept by rock, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the drift of tectonic plates. Seen in deep time, things come alive that seemed inert. New responsibilities declare themselves. Ice breathes. Rock has tides. Mountains rise and fall. We live on a restless Earth...... .......We should resist such inertial thinking; indeed, we should urge its opposite – deep time as a radical perspective, provoking us to action not apathy. For to think in deep time can be a means not of escaping our troubled present, but rather of re-imagining it; countermanding its quick greeds and furies with older, slower stories of making and unmaking. At its best, a deep time awareness might help us see ourselves as part of a web of gift, inheritance and legacy stretching over millions of years past and millions to come, bringing us to consider what we are leaving behind for the epochs and beings that will follow us." Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD), social media 08/02/24 sophie strand, your body is an ancestor "Your body is an ancestor. Your body is an altar to your ancestors. Every one of your cells holds an ancient and anarchic love story. Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem. Every seven to ten years your cells will have turned over, rearticulated by your inhales and exhales, your appetites and proclivity for certain flavors. If you live in a valley, chances are the ancient glacial moraine, the fossils crushed underfoot, the spores from grandmotherly honey fungi, have all entered into and rebuilt the very molecular make up of your bones, your lungs, and even your eyes. Even your lungfuls of exhaust churn you into an ancestor altar for Mesozoic ferns pressurized into the fossil fuels. You are threaded through with fossils. Your microbiome is an ode to bacterial legacies you would not be able to trace with birth certificates and blood lineages. You are the ongoing-ness of the dead. The alembic where they are given breath again. Every decision, every idea, every poem you breathe and live is a resurrection of elements that date back to the birth of this universe itself." Sophie Strand , Make Me Good Soil On Substack October 18, 2025
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 The Westray Goddess, the
oldest human form found in Scotland. (Orkney Archipelago)
"We cannot surrender to the doomsday narrative that haunts us because
it serves to make us give up on our dreams, and within our dreams lie the memories of the Earth and our ancestors." Ailton Krenak Ancestral Future LAND ART
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