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The Seducer
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Thomas Lovejoy has been researching the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest for decades. The ecologist has learned that facts are not enough to convince the powerful
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"We see nothing," Lovejoy says, "but everyone sees us." By everyone, he means the countless animals that populate this forest
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Amazon: Camp 41
For Tom Lovejoy • By Greg
Meshed forest
Trees tied by vines
To infinite forms of life
A night time venture of a hundred meters
Feels like all human history gone
Chains of ants carrying their eggs on roads of root
A high hipped frog tailored and yellow eyed
A zombie cricket sown by fungus to a high leaf
Its head inhabited and exploded to spill zombie spore
A beetle
White sleeved as a butler at both ends
From one end a plausible head emerges
From the other a hand like appendage for grabbing and locomotion
And beneath, 2 perfect green dots of luminescence
Taillights glowing
Is the little camp still there
Pretending to no permanence,
Borrowing only its space
In a cathedral of air
Carved into a world of trees
Older than our great gothic cathedrals
Thick night falls fat with bird calls
unknown insects stridulating
Small frogs bellow though drain pipes at
cocooned hammock snorers,
enmeshed in a rainforest of sounds
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Together, forest and river produce their own climate, which in turn influences the global climate. Around 20 percent of the world's oxygen is produced in the rainforest
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Thomas Lovejoy scans the roots on the ground with his feet. The 77-year-old with the unusual last name is one of the world's most renowned ecologists; the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences once called him the "Godfather of Biodiversity
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"The most important work is done by the rainforest itself. It never lets go of those who have entered it. That gives him hope. The jungle never lets him go."
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Brand Eins
03.2019
Mayday
Issue 5
Público
Nr.10716
Society Magazine
112.2019
Werde Magazin
02.2021
The Seducer
Thomas Lovejoy has been researching the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest for decades. The ecologist has learned that facts are not enough to convince the powerful
"We see nothing," Lovejoy says, "but everyone sees us." By everyone, he means the countless animals that populate this forest
Amazon: Camp 41
For Tom Lovejoy •
By Greg
Meshed forest
Trees tied by vines
To infinite forms of life
A night time venture of a hundred meters
Feels like all human history gone
Chains of ants carrying their eggs on roads of root
A high hipped frog tailored and yellow eyed
A zombie cricket sown by fungus to a high leaf
Its head inhabited and exploded to spill zombie spore
A beetle
White sleeved as a butler at both ends
From one end a plausible head emerges
From the other a hand like appendage for grabbing and locomotion
And beneath, 2 perfect green dots of luminescence
Taillights glowing
Is the little camp still there
Pretending to no permanence, Borrowing only its space
In a cathedral of air Carved into a world of trees
Older than our great gothic cathedrals
Thick night falls fat with bird calls unknown insects stridulating
Small frogs bellow though drain pipes at
cocooned hammock snorers,
enmeshed in a rainforest of sounds
Together, forest and river produce their own climate, which in turn influences the global climate. Around 20 percent of the world's oxygen is produced in the rainforest
Thomas Lovejoy scans the roots on the ground with his feet. The 77-year-old with the unusual last name is one of the world's most renowned ecologists; the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences once called him the "Godfather of Biodiversity
"The most important work is done by the rainforest itself. It never lets go of those who have entered it. That gives him hope. The jungle never lets him go."
Brand Eins
03.2019
Mayday
Issue 5
Público
Nr.10716
Society Magazine
112.2019
Werde Magazin
02.2021