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	<title>le jardin roerich &#124; the roerich garden project &#187; Phil Jenkins</title>
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		<title>marquer le territoire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/ the ecology of place: histoire, esprit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laisser sa trace sur une parcelle de terre...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aucune terre ne sait quel drapeau flotte au-dessus d’elle ou quelle nation représente ce drapeau. Mettre des drapeaux sur les territoires se fait par commodité, pour qu’on puisse  aisément les trouver et déclarer d’où nous venons. Les noms des places, projetés sur les cartes, les coins de rues et les portes des jardins, comme les graffitis, permet à l’histoire de savoir qui est passé par là, mais ils ne sont pas gravés dans la pierre. Lorsqu’ils arrivent, les propriétaires marquent leur territoire non pas en laissant leur odeur sur le pied d’un arbre, mais en changeant le titre du terrain indiqué par ce même arbre. Si vous assemblez chronologiquement une série de cartes d’une région en les déposant une sur l’autre, telle les couches de peintures d’un vieux meuble, vous pouvez saisir les changements d’adresses. Aujourd’hui, il est possible de localiser chaque maison par 4 petites lignes, un numéro sur une route, une ville, une province, un pays; c’est tout ce que ça prend. Sous cette insipide formule, griffonnée sur une enveloppe, se trouve l’histoire de cette parcelle de terre.</p>
<p>Jenkins, P. (2001). An acre of time. New York : Paperback. p. 69.</p>
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		<title>urban rituals for urban acres</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Jenkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have inherited the city and it's foundation, we are guardians rather than owners, we are fleeting parts of something more vast and encompassing than we allow.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The key to stopping the erosion of respect is ritual; I&#8217;m certain of it. The rituals of respect for birth, marriage, and death are still around, but the rituals of respect for the land beneath our city feet have faded. North American environmentalism, when it was taking its&#8217; first steps, had no stock of rituals on hand to stoke up respect- so it went to the First Nations, and borrowed theirs (even ones they weren&#8217;t using themselves). The fascination with native ceremonies, music, and philosophy was rejuvenating, but in the end it was nostalgia for something that, for the majority of Canadians, who live in cities, was never theirs. A fresh set of rituals, urban rituals for urban acres, is what&#8217;s required, to revive the idea of stewardship- we have inherited the city and it&#8217;s foundation, we are guardians rather than owners, we are fleeting parts of something more vast and encompassing than we allow. It&#8217;s fine to fight for the cute parts, the rural acres and the wilderness, but the ugly metros are also in need of redemption. [...] There is a chance that some day we&#8217;ll exhaust the land with our nagging energy and our growing numbers. A revival of respect, and the rituals that go with it, could govern our worst tendencies. The acre, neither knows nor cares if we respect it. If and when we are gone, it will swallow what we force down it&#8217;s throat and then fall to the task of repair. It is our benefit to perform the rituals, to use our resourcefulness to understand and maintain the acre&#8217;s resources.</p>
<p>From Jenkins, P. (2001). <em>An Acre of Time. </em>New York : Paperback. p. 211.</p>
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		<title>pénétrer le sol&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/ the ecology of place: histoire, esprit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Le concept d’individu ne s’applique pas dans la nature. Dans chaque prétendue indépendance, la vie est une colonie de co-dépendants…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C’est l’histoire, la biographie du champ en dessous de mes pieds…  Les colons anglais imposèrent leurs acres sur une terre qui auparavant flottait allègrement d’un océan à l’autre, sans mesures. (…) Les résidants de l’acre ; plantes, arbres et animaux sont des miracles familiers, mais pendant que leur histoire se dévoile au-dessus du sol, une autre se produit simultanément sous le sol, à l’abri des regards… un système microscopique, sans soleil, de bactéries, de champignons et de petits invertébrés par milliards… merveilles inconnues sous nos pieds. Aller dans le sol, le vrai, et non pas la zone stérile que l’agriculture moderne a transformée en un stationnement pour récoltes pour connaître le sens complet de la terre. Le sol est matière vivante. Une once de terre issue de l’acre, à peine assez pour remplir la paume d’un enfant, est une nation de relations que nous ne comprenons pas plus que nous connaissons les habitants d’une ville que nous survolerions en avion. Le concept d’individu ne s’applique pas dans la nature. Dans chaque prétendue indépendance, la vie est une colonie de co-dépendants…</p>
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		<title>to go into soil&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://roerichproject.artefati.ca/history/to-go-into-soil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Jenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3/ the ecology of place: histoire, esprit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the story, the biography of the field beneath my feet&#8230; English settlers imposed their acres on a land that before they arrived had flowed from sea to sea, joyfully free of measurement. (&#8230;) The acre&#8217;s residents; plants, trees, and animals are familiar miracles but while their story unfolds above ground, there is another running [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s the story, the biography of the field beneath my feet&#8230; English settlers imposed their acres on a land that before they arrived had flowed from sea to sea, joyfully free of measurement. (&#8230;) The acre&#8217;s residents; plants, trees, and animals are familiar miracles but while their story unfolds above ground, there is another running concurrently, in the soil beneath vision&#8230; microscopic solarless system of bacteria, fungi, and tiny invertebrates on their billions&#8230; unfamiliar wonders beneath our feet. To go into soil, the real thing, not the sterile pool that modern agriculture has turned into a parking lot for crops is to step into the word land. Soil is a living mat. An ounce of the acre&#8217;s dirt, hardly enough to fill a child&#8217;s palm, is a nation of relationship that we no more understand than we know the people in a city we fly over. There is not such thing as an individual in nature. Inside every seeming bit of independence, life is a colony of co-dependents.</p>
<p>From Jenkins, P. (2001). <em>An acre of time</em>. New York : Paperback. p. 26.</p>
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		<title>marking territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Jenkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No piece of land knows which flag it is flying or the nation that flag represents. Putting name flags on soil is a matter of convenience, so we can find one another, and state where we are from. Place names, sprayed on maps, street corners and garden gates, like graffiti, lets history know who has [...]]]></description>
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<p>No piece of land knows which flag it is flying or the nation that flag represents. Putting name flags on soil is a matter of convenience, so we can find one another, and state where we are from. Place names, sprayed on maps, street corners and garden gates, like graffiti, lets history know who has passed this way, but they are not etched in stone. Landlords, as they arrive, mark their territory not by leaving scent on a tree, but by changing the title of the ground the tree stands on. If you assemble a chronological series of maps of a region and lay them one on top of another, like layers of paint on an old piece of furniture, you can track the changes of address. Today it is possible to pin-point any home in four short lines, a number on a road, a town, a province, a country; that&#8217;s all it takes. Beneath that bland formula, scribbled on an envelope, is the history of that plot of land.</p>
<p>From Jenkins, P. (2001). <em>An acre of time</em>. New York : Paperback. p. 69.</p>
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