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Libros
Sensibilidad e inteligencia en el mundo vegetal
Traducción de David Paradela López
Colección: Rústica
ISBN: 978-84-16252-31-2
144 pp. | 14,5 €
Fecha de publicación: 2015-02-18
También disponible en ebook
Sinopsis
Las plantas podrían perfectamente vivir sin nosotros, en cambio nosotros sin ellas nos extinguiríamos en un breve período de tiempo. Es más, en el planeta Tierra existe tan sólo un 0,3% de vida animal frente a un 99,7% de vida vegetal. Y sin embargo expresiones como «vegetar» o «ser un vegetal» indican en casi todas las lenguas unas condiciones de vida reducidas a la mínima expresión.
Cuando pensamos en las plantas, nos sentimos tentados a atribuirles dos características: inmovilidad e insensibilidad. Pero investigaciones científicas llevadas a cabo durante los últimos cincuenta años han demostrado que las plantas son sensibles (es decir que están dotadas no sólo de los cinco sentidos que posee la especie humana sino de hasta quince sentidos más), se comunican e intercambian información (entre ellas y con los animales), duermen, memorizan, cuidan de sus hijos, tienen su propia personalidad, toman decisiones e incluso son capaces de manipular a otras especies. ¿Cómo negar pues que también son inteligentes? Su capacidad para resolver los problemas que se les presentan ha sido probada por los estudios más recientes.
Este libro se adentra en el fascinante mundo de las plantas desde el rigor científico y al mismo tiempo usando un lenguaje accesible a cualquier lector. Y pone al descubierto lo mucho que les debemos y, más aún, lo mucho que aún nos pueden enseñar.
"Me gusta pensar en la fotografía como un acto de respeto en dos formas. Respeto por el medio, dejándole hacer lo que mejor hace, describir. Y respeto por el tema, describiéndolo como es. Un fotógrafo debe responsabilizarse de ambos". I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both. Una pequeña muestra del trabajo de este incansable testigo de la vida de Estados Unidos durante los años 50, los 60 y los 70. Manifestaciones, camapañas presidenciales , escenas de la vida cotidiana, el zoo del Bronx y el acuario de Coney Island, las mujeres (uno de sus libros se titula "las mujeres son hermosas"...) Una exposición que puede verse en la sala Mapfre de Madrid hasta el 3 de Mayo.
The Practicing MindDeveloping Focus and Discipline in Your LifeThomas M. Sterner
The Practicing Mind. It’s the key to true inner peace and contentment. In a world that conditions us to obsess about goals and outcomes, it’s easy to miss the importance of the process. The PRACTICE. Thomas Sterner brilliantly (!) helps us bring discipline and focus into our lives to experience the presence and joy that comes as a result. (Bonus: We also create a frictionless path to our goals as well!)
“Self-discipline, focus, patience, and self-awareness are interwoven threads in the fabric of both true inner peace and contentment in life. Together, living in the present moment and being process-oriented is the path that leads us to these all- important virtues. This magical path is there for everyone. It offers its untold riches to us all. “The Practicing Mind” is about remembering what you already know at some level and bringing that memory into the present, where it will serve to both place you onto the path and empower you to partake in the journey.“Thomas M. Sterner
Sigue cantando en directo, disfrutando de la vida y conservando algo su belleza luminosa. A veces aún la vemos en películas que reponen en televisión (Irina Palm, por ejemplo).
A compilation of worldwide YouTube content, the crowd-sourced documentary "Life in a Day" by Kevin Macdonald, and local footage by Jon Goodgion. Audio is the spoken word poem "Instructions For a Bad Day" by Shane Koyczan.
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Here is the poem in written form:
"There will be bad days.
Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go.
Be confident. Know that "now" is only a moment, and that if "today" is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow, "today" will have ended.
Be gracious. Accept each extended hand offered, to pull you back from the "somewhere" you cannot escape.
Be diligent. Scrape the gray sky clean. Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen meant to blind us from the Truth - and the Truth is, whether we see them or not, the Sun and Moon are still there and always there is Light.
Be forthright. Despite your instinct to say "it's alright, I'm okay" - be honest. Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity.
Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your oppose. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that Pain is part of the Human Condition, and that alone makes you a legion.
We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, we dissmisser's of odds, we pressers of on - we will station ourselves to the calm. We will hold ourselves to the steady, be ready player one. Life is going to come at you armed with hard times and tough choices, your voice is your weapon, your thoughts ammunition - there are no free extra men, be aware that as the instant now passes, it exists now as then. So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was too hard and you'd never make it through.
Remember the times you could have pressed quit - but you hit continue.
Be forgiving. Living with the burden of anger, is not living. Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed.
Be persistent. Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful - because it doesn't know it's not supposed to grow there.
Be resolute. Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions the resolve with which you accept it. If you are having a good day, be considerate. A simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for.
If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can - do more. There will be bad days, Times when the world weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not, check your blind spot. See that love is still there, be patient.
Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have called you. I am calling you "friend". Make us comprehend the urgency of your crisis. Silence left to its own devices, breed's silence. So speak and be heard. One word after the next, express yourself and put your life in the context - if you find that no one is listening, be loud. Make noise. Stand in poise and be open. Hope in these situations is not enough and you will need someone to lean on. In the unlikely event that you have no one, look again.
Everyone is blessed with the ability to Listen. The Deaf will hear you with their Eyes. The Blind will see you with their Hands. Let your Heart fill their news-stands, let them read all about it. Admit to the bad days, the impossible nights. Listen to the insights of those who have been there, but come back. They will tell you; you can stack misery, you can pack disappear you can even wear your sorrow - but come tomorrow you must change your clothes.
Everyone knows Pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you "how was your day", realize that for some of us, it's the only way we know how to say "be calm".
Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now - let go."
