Quote for Today: David Suzuki
We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we …
Mud and Consciousness: The Works of Alexandra Engelfriet
Have you ever felt a rush of joy when digging in the dirt or splashing through mud? There is something very primal about soil and our relationship to it. Alexandra …
Quote for Today: Joseph Conrad
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. —Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Synkroniciti …
Quote for Today: George Crabbe
There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide; Where the small eels that left …
Spirits of Earth and Water: Heligan, Eden and Mud Sculpture in Cornwall
From ghostly moors to the longest stretch of continuous coastline in Britain, the county of Cornwall is a mysterious and legendary place, home to the famously haunted Jamaica Inn on …
Quote for Today: Pablo Neruda
At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we …
Joy in Slow Motion: The Beauty of Mud
Simple and breathtaking, The Beauty of Mud is a slow motion exploration of earth and water. If you have ever taken delight in the exceptional mud puddle you will enjoy …
Mud Painting: The Art of Henry Neubig
Artist Henry Neubig makes astonishing paintings with Louisiana dirt. Digging in five different counties, Neubig has a palette of eight colors, all iron oxides. By mixing the paints together and …
Quote for Today: Lorine Niedecker
I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich rich silence of the church, the little white slave-girl …