Date: January 2025

The first shelter for a human body is not a house made of bricks. For our species, like all other mammals, life always begins in another mammal's body, and our first home will always be our mother's womb.

Priyanka Singh Parihar

Care is cultivated through those personal entwinements—so when it comes to crisis and awareness, we can't move forward on intellect and facts alone. We need the gut, the body, joy and grief.

Jessica J. Lee

Beyond aesthetic terms, I know humans carry a deep appreciation for behavioural beauty. We experience beauty in kindness, friendship, connection, and love. Even though the rise of social media and consumerism has narrowed the word ‘beauty’ and degraded it to mere glamour, true beauty is not skin-deep but carries the potential to unveil revelations for our kind.

Priyanka Singh Parihar

When I got involved with climate activism and started learning more about ecology, biodiversity and climate change, I looked at my forest differently. I understood that it was—like most forests surrounding me—a monoculture plantation, which led me to feel almost tricked by the beauty that had surrounded me since childhood. But this also started a further inquiry into “what makes a forest."

Emelie Victoria Isaksen

What we do to our surroundings mirrors our internal world. The same ideology that teaches us to fight, suppress, and tame nature ties us to the realities we are desperately trying to escape.

Priyanka Singh Parihar

Play is a form of resilience, a way of staying open even when the world feels closed.

Francesca Heart
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