This is a sort of catharsis... Well just sort of. Hello dear reader wherever you are sitting, whenever you are reading this, I welcome you to Soil & Stars. A blog about natural resources and the dream of a better future. Nothing is more precious and ephemeral than the things that make us.. 'us'. To use the words of someone much wiser and far-reaching than myself:
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan
Isn't that what should be in our minds when we think about the soil we tend, the woods we destroy, the food we eat? We are not so different from the stuff around us, and that should make us pause. At least that is what I am thinking about.
This blog will dedicate itself to thoughts about agriculture, agricultural practices, and the eternal dream of reaching for the stars (space travel). We will try to explore how these topics interweave and depend on each other. How humanity will never truly reach beyond the pull of earth's gravity, if we do not create sustainable agricultural and food practices.
For now this blog will be updated irregularly, however, in the future comments and posts will (hopefully) come in streams. Until then, toil on!