Kawai Kanjiro house, Kyoto 3.11
An “environment” is something you are in. It is not alive. A subway tunnel is an environment.
environ (v.)
late 14c. (implied in environing), “to surround,” from O.Fr. environer “to surround, enclose, encircle,” from environ “round about,” from en- “in” (see en- (1)) + viron “circle, circuit,” from virer “to turn” (see veer). Related: Environed.
A “biome” is something you (kindred to all life) are. You are alive because the biome is alive.
biome
1916, from Gk. bios (see bio-) + -ome.
bio-
from Gk. bio-, comb. form of bios “one’s life, course or way of living, lifetime” (as opposed to zoe “animal life, organic life”), from PIE base *gweie- “to live” (cf. Skt. jivah “alive, living;” O.E. cwic “alive;” L. vivus “living, alive,” vita “life;” M.Pers. zhiwak “alive;” O.C.S. zivo “to live;” Lith. gyvas “living, alive;” O.Ir. bethu “life,” bith “age;” Welsh byd “world”). Equivalent of L. vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean “organic life.”
Know the biome and know yourself—which is always more than you’ve ever been taught.
There’s more going on than we’re urged to perceive; the still woods aren’t still, at all.
Look at the sky as it rains into the hills, whose deep waters purl in the sands and the bedrock, and become 60% of our bodies as we drink years from the same faucet.
We are the sky we drink from.
We are not environments.
We are biomes.
I am not an environmentalist.
I am a biocitizen.
kami stones Kyoto 3.11
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