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Oxy Gen Cycle
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Of all our invisible friends, oxygen is our one reaasuring constant. As a social influencer, it is known to be highly reactive (thereby unable to exist as a free element in air) and readily form oxides with most elements and compounds. Suffering from separation anxiety, it exist only as twins under normative settings. In the […]
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Soil is Alive
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It is a statement of undeniable beauty that the soil is alive. And I often chase the axion with the caveat that it is not a metaphor. It hosts the living and homes the dead and processes the elemental cycles of existence. It is a tapestry of interlinked, interlayered, interwoven dimensions. 1 g of soil […]
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Love like Nitrogen
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Just like luscious love, nitrogen (atomic number 7) is abundantly floating through the air. 78 percent of the atmosphere consists of N2; for mimicking romantic love, N only exists in an elemental bond of two, under normative temperature and pressure. Yet just like love, it is barely bioavailable to us mortals. We need a spark […]
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Majesty of May Bush
Of the seven strata of a forest, the shrubs occupy the middle section. Growing in the filtered light available between the canopy and the understory, they help in combating soil erosion and water runoff. Looking for a home for little creatures of the garden and food for butterflies, I discovered Spiraea cantoniensis. Named after my […]
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Soil to Dust, Human to Ashes
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All the bio-anxiety, all the paranoia during pandemic, all the conferences on climate change, all the floods, fire and fissures could not wake us up. And here we are on the brink of ecological precipice. We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction with the current extinction rate of 150 species per day. […]
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fear & repair
Regeneration is the ‘mool mantra‘ or core essence of all natural ecosystems. We are bound to get hurt and in turn we are destined to heal. We are a process of rebuilding through fear and into repair. As we align with the elemental forces of earth, we observe and realise the flow of self-regulation and […]
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revolution of least resistance
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The wise Rumi said that it is not our task to seek love but to remove all barriers we have built against it. We believe that we humans are an integral part of nature and our disengagement from our natural home has made us dependent on the artificiality of a man-made universe, a plasticity that […]
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Arugula fights monkeys & cancer
There is something about the Mediterranean herb that irks the monkeys of the mountains. They stay clear of them. Though the primates did dig out the complete celery patch (perhaps more out of spite than for food). As it turns out, it is not only monkeys but also cancerous cells that cannot stand arugula. A […]
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Apricot Blossoms
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Sprawling against the Raleigh scatterings, glazing across the snow dusted mountains, the spring antlers wear pink blossoms as the wild apricots awaken. The mid of March has crossed us by and the trees of prunus, family of roses (Rosaceae) unfurl their buds. The first to yawn open are the five pinkish petals of the apricot. […]
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Roots
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It is an unequivocal truth that healthy roots are equivalent to healthy plants. Yet, as often as it is the norm of the upsidedown world, the visible feeds the invisible, the seen collects for the unseen, the known gathers for the unknown. It is easy to imagine in our folly that roots draw food for […]
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The Will of the Plants
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These plants, of whom the snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) were the second to rise after fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), chose their path, their future, their home.
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A Relationship Councellor
I don’t fancy myself as a gardener with answers. I don’t know why your pumpkin leaves have holes in them. I can’t say why your zucchini fell off the vine. I don’t even understand how much water your echeveria must need. I am not a bag of information, nor am I trained in designing land […]
Plants of Pluto
regenerative ecosystems by Sumanto Majumder
Helping you reflect on the essential connection between the body and mind, and the inherent self-healing ability of the natural world by building regenerative gardens.
Plants of Pluto 