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Looking Outward

Sometimes, to understand ourselves more clearly, we have to look further away. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its camera back towards Earth in 1990, it captured one of the most famous images ever taken. Our entire world appeared as a tiny, almost invisible speck of light suspended in a sunbeam. Carl Sagan called itContinue reading “Looking Outward”

Can adults ever really see “just mud” again?

Green Pages is a space for exploring some of the quieter reflections sitting underneath Birmingham’s City of Nature journey. Part nature writing, part systems thinking, these pieces often begin with ordinary moments:a walk,a conversation,a bridge,a memory,mud on a child’s hands. From there, they gently wander into bigger questions about belonging, wellbeing, nature connection, memory andContinue reading “Can adults ever really see “just mud” again?”