Micro documentaries about plants.
Nature invented the supermarket millions of years ago. The blackbird and the robin, the roe deer and the wild boar know it. We also discovered it when we collected acorns and hazelnuts, when we didn't trust the harvests of corn or peas. It's time for sweet, sour, bitter, tart berries, perhaps poisonous. Small and large … Continue reading Sugar
I want to take a journey to the yellow. This time, a journey in search of all those horizons where yellow is a sea of wheat and Van Gogh's sunflowers. It could include the small patches of intense yellow found in some fallow fields saturated with clusters of dandelions or bitter chicory, the very yellow … Continue reading Journey through the yellow sunflower
There is only one thing more precious, in terms of value and beauty, than a river. Without it, a river is nothing. With it, a river is not just a canal with a meadow, an irrigation ditch with a garden, a trickle with weeds, water and nothing. It has many names. They call it riverside … Continue reading Riparian
Walking along a deserted beach on a Caribbean island brings real images to those exotic landscapes from movies that we could only imagine during our formative years. After seeing so many images, they somehow feel familiar to us, but we knew they were very far away. When, after a fantastic meander where the Limon River … Continue reading Reaching the end of the river
More than a million years ago, the Günz glaciation occurred, followed by the Mindel glaciation half a million years ago, the Riss glaciation two hundred thousand years ago, and the Würm glaciation eighty thousand years ago. Kilometers of ice rose and fell in slow tides, changing the landscapes and what could live in this inhospitable … Continue reading Relict oaks
Water is very clever and flows where it costs less; with time as its ally, it erodes and destroys everything in its path with the sole aim of reaching lakes and oceans quickly and comfortably. The landscape knows water and the rest of the elements very well; they have all worked together for millions of … Continue reading Management of the natural environment and wildfires
These days, a stroll through the lavender fields of Brihuega coincided with reading Federico Kukso's book, "Odorama: A Cultural History of Smell." There are things that stink and are exquisite, like cheeses and perfumes with refined scents that, however, if we drink them, are disgusting. There are also days when humanity stinks as a whole … Continue reading Lavender
Conveying the disaster that is happening with water in the natural environment without falling into arguments to which we have become accustomed and that little call attention, besides being unoriginal, is like making a toast to the sun. The catastrophic discourse has lasted so long that it does not transcend, the daily dramas have immunized … Continue reading The rivers that are disappearing
“Leave your car on the road and climb encouraged to the top of a cliff, sit up there, take a deep breath of that pure air, and then look around... here is the work of nature. And you, reader, can be sure that this landscape, at that precise moment and with the same lights and … Continue reading Sierra de Cazorla
On December 10, 1997, a large logging company was cutting down 1000-year-old sequoias. Julia "Butterfly" Hill climbed one of them and stayed up there for 738 days, enduring the company's harassment and even a hurricane. In this way, she managed to make her gesture known to many and finally prevented their felling. These oak forests … Continue reading Garganta de Cuartos oaks
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