Claira Turvey

@clairaturvey.bsky.social

Sustainable development & social anthropology. Exploring more-than-human relations, rights of nature, decolonisation, cognitive & procedural justice and reparations 🌿 🌱 A lesson from nature everyday: https://naturalthinkinglab.substack.com 🕸️ Edinburgh

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

"What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore and I will arrive." - seen in a cemetery on Italian island Lampedusa, where people who die at sea are buried.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if sports teams represented landscapes instead of states? Last night's match might have been between the South American Grasslands and the Mediterranean bioregions.

Deborah Sandidge Photography "This young Roseate Spoonbill preens her beautiful pink feathers in the heart of the wetlands. Juvenile Roseate Spoonbills are pale pink compared to the adults, gaining their vibrant feathers at around three years." Nikon Z9/600mm f/4 TC lens, slow motion video.

I recently came across the best ever rationale for species introduction to the UK: "I reckon we could just throw the middle spotted woodpecker into the UK. It would be very satisfying to have that gap between lesser and greater filled, regardless of the consequences."