Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with trees
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TIM BARRUS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
Take notes. Americans will tell you they like diversity. They do not know what diversity even is. It took hundreds of millions of years for trees to invent themselves. During the Carnian Pluvial Event, it rained for two million years. Two million years of rain. We cannot even imagine it.…
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What Extinction: Tim Barrus NYT
Our extinction. Writers are always telling me that we must all be hopeful. Are you fucking kidding me. The environment was destroyed a long time ago. There is nothing left to save. I have given up. On humanity. We are, in fact, Australopithecines. Homo sapiens are so smart, so brilliant,…
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A Shifting of the Clouds
the woods behind the house extends a sustained but curious sense of authority as if their push against the sky was preordained which is not true/ but rather/ we are all creatures of evolution/ we were not always this/ but arrived walking out of oceans (heroically) long since disappeared/ more…