I have never been to Iceland, but I always imagined that it laid untainted by the hand of man. I know it is wishful thinking. Gentrification comes with at the expense of nature. We set up camp and greedily lay claim to more land with every passing day. Thomsen’s photographs of the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project [...]

… I turned around and looked back at where I came from. I like to venture into the hibernating woods, bare though it is at this time of the year, and feel the serenity. Under the canopy of snow, the ground glows. The snow crackled lightly under my weight with every step. The stillness all [...]

I rarely look into the eyes of my conversation companions. When I do, it is a perfunctory glance, shrouded behind a veil, performed reluctantly to satisfy the basic customs of holding a conversation. I attribute my tremendous difficulty in maintaining eye contact to my lack of self-confidence. Vain as this may sound, [...]

We are animals observing animals:
The series is entitled The Institute of Critical Zoologists, which is the first interdisciplinary scholarly center dedicated to promoting scholarly dialogue and research on the principles and practices of animal spectatorship, animal advocacy, animal killings and animal-related polices in the fields of social sciences, entertainment, commerce, aesthetics, culture and ecology…
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… I stood at the feet of the structure and looked up into the sky. The sun rays filtered every crevice, obscuring the topmost in a flare of light. I felt small, humbled by the quietly imposing presence the structured commanded. I reached out and touched its skin, a rough hide laboriously wrought of sand [...]

Every now and again, my parents relate their childhood experiences to me. They lived in a remote village in Malaysia. Farmers by trade, my grandparents relied on their offspring to manage the household and occasionally plough the fields. Financially humble, my grandparents had no access to modern amenities and tools we take for granted today. [...]

The American southwest desert environment is a total ecosystem that is extremely fragile, easily scarred, and slowly healed… and its resources, including certain rare and endangered species of wildlife, plants, and fishes, and numerous archeological and historic sites, are seriously threatened by air pollution, inadequate Federal management authority, and pressures of increased use, particularly recreational [...]

I rarely venture out much. I complain that Vancouver lacks a vibrant nightlife, yet deep down, I know that my voluntary incarceration is due to my poor social skills. It seems that, as the years pass, I have lost my humour. Few enjoy the company of a pessimistic, cynical man. I do not blame them. [...]

Dong Cheng, in China, is a village where every commercial activity turns around the reproduction of… famous sculptures. The creators of these “fakes” assume a marginal position and then almost disappear behind the “real” authors that they copy… [But] what is “fake”? Couldn’t we define these people [as] “artists”? Aren’t the hands and the craft [...]

“… For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and [...]