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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,...
Life is a geological force
What began as a nostalgia trip back to New Zealand, revisiting the land I left in the ´80s, when I first came to live in Spain, has gone beyond that and become more of a wider journey in which I have returned to the landscape. The glaciers which I explored way back in the ´80s are now the source of a series of work which is really more about the earth as a biosphere.
"In the second part of the twentieth century the Russian mineralogist V. Vernadsky expanded the definition of biosphere to include the concept that life was an active participant in geological evolution, and he encapsulated the notion in the phrase, `Life is a geological force´..." (The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock)
