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In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to fit the land. As a result, there are many varieties of corn domesticated by our ancestors, all adapted to grow in many different places. Modern agriculture, with its big engines and fossil fuels, took the opposite approach: modify the land to fit the plants, which are frighteningly similar clones.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of Y” or “Meditations on Z,” and I always assume they’re under-baked. That’s a topic, not a take.
28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
Adam Mastroianni
I've found the comments in the database files (e.g. North America [https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica](https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica) ) to be an interesting documentation of the history of the definition of time for various areas. For example, Indiana [https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica#L846](https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica#L846)
I've Found the Comments in the Database Files (e.g. North America
shagie
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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