Fox-Lox.
Ernest Rhys ed., Fairy-Gold A Book of Old English Fairy Tales, illus. Herbert Cole, (London: J.M. Dent, (1934) [1906
Anne Carson, ‘By Chance the Cycladic People’, London Review of Books, 25 April 2013, p. 35.
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The fox in cunning not once did fail.
Ian Serraillier, The Challenge of the Green Knight, illus. Victor G.Ambrus ( London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981 [1967] ).](http://24.media.tumblr.com/b3bda7a7ff14cef2cdab08e14892ca4d/tumblr_mmlll2avm51rp1q8wo1_500.jpg)
Ian Serraillier, The Challenge of the Green Knight, illus. Victor G.Ambrus ( London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981 [1967] ).
A farm with a city in it
‘Rob Small describes Cape Town as ‘a farm with a city in it.’ Cape Town has a population of about 3.7 million, slightly more than half of these live in the city’s informal settlements. When people speak of ‘Cape Town’ they tend to mean its older suburbs with their – still – mainly white inhabitants. It strikes me that so much of the city’s problem with urban agriculture is that its community projects maintain the distinction between the historically ‘white’ and wealthy and ‘black’ and poor parts of the city. Projects based in Constantia, Woodstock, and Oranjezicht ‘reach out’ to ‘educate’ and ‘uplift’ the ‘poor’ (whoever they may be), ignoring the fact that so much of the city’s informal settlements are being farmed – and are exceptionally productive.
It’s old women in Nyanga and farmers in Philippi who are the key to ensuring the city’s future food security. They are the ones who should be deciding Cape Town’s urban agricultural policies.’
Cordyline indivisa (Blue Dracaena).
Frances Perry, Beautiful Leaved Plants, ( London: Scolar Press, 1979 ).
Alexis Madrigal, 'The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth'
‘Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large.
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The photographers were charged with three broad goals: “to photograph America’s environmental problems, to document America’s natural and man-made beauty and to photograph the human condition.”
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But as it happened, the photographers interpreted their task in different ways. What they captured was not simply a portrait of “nature,” but the environment as people knew it and lived in it.’
Bangladesh's Tragedy and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
‘for the last 200 years, garment manufacturing has flowed from ethnicity to ethnicity, as well as from region to region, from New England to the Middle Atlantic states, from North to South. Each group, when it begins to demand more accountability and a living wage, is discarded. Manufacturing change flows quickly to stay ahead of legislative change. Like water, industrial management seeks a route of least resistance — eventually flowing out of our shores altogether in the 1990s and, finally, flooding (among many other places) the alluvial plains of Bangladesh.’
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‘There is cold chicken inside it,’ replied the Rat briefly;
‘coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickled
gherkinssaladfrenchrollscress
sandwichespottedmeatgingerbeer
lemonadesodawater ——’
‘O stop, stop,’ cried the Mole in ecstasies: ‘This is too much!’
"Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908. (via intheheatherbright)
