A mother and child are walking through the woods, where large, majestic trees shade the path and the forest teems with life. The child is small, in the “hows” and “whys” phase typical of the age when we become curious about the world around us. Faced with the spectacle of […]
Maria Beatrice Lupi
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In a fast-paced world, exploring places, big cities, and one’s own country has been reduced to organized trips, to cities overwhelmed by overtourism, to guided tours that take visitors to the most famous landmarks, whose images decorate the walls of tour operators or fill the glossy pages of specialized magazines. […]
December is the darkest and quietest month of the year. Winter spends its final days in silence, guarding the seeds of the many summer and autumn fruits, waiting for the light to slowly make them germinate, restoring them to a thousand lives.Giuseppe Ungaretti writes: “Like a seed, my soul also […]
In winter, in the woods and mist-shrouded countryside, on the trunks and branches of now-bare deciduous trees, one sometimes sees, alas, increasingly rarely, bushy balls—tangles of greenish branches and leaves: these are the Mistletoe plants! Mistletoe (Viscum album L. 1753) belongs to the Santalaceae family. It is a bushy evergreen […]
We live in an era of climate change, floods, storms, hurricanes, devastating landslides, melting glaciers, environmental disasters, plastics everywhere, uncontrolled emissions, rampant deforestation, biodiversity loss, and habitat destruction.Every time a catastrophic event occurs, we fill our mouths with words that then remain empty promises.Terms like environmentalism, nature conservation, and the […]