I am interested in “everyday history,” microhistory, and unwritten history that surround us in our everyday lives. What kind of traces do we leave? What is significant enough to be remembered?
Riitta Päiväläinen
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation; it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I think this is the beauty about the ocean and working with the ocean as a kind of starting point for actually coming to the conclusion that everything is connected. You can't think about oceans without thinking about clouds, right? Everyone sees clouds.
Markus Reymann
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts; they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse
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.
