On the way to search for aragonites, we discovered an old factory, its large wells, the labyrinth of pools and walls in the middle of the wasteland, near a deserted village. Few things abound so much in the world, just a little bit of ocean and a little bit of sun for it to precipitate, … Continue reading Aragonites and salt pans
Dawn breaks and a faint light carves a palette of blue, mauve, violet, and reddish colors in the sky. A faint murmur of water can be heard in the distance. We are completely in the dark, but even without light and with our eyes closed, we could perfectly describe everything around us. We breathe. The … Continue reading Salmon of Figal
“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
Minutes I have been fascinated by the depths of the sea since before I knew how to use my consciousness. As a child, I began visiting them. The Mediterranean was where I discovered those pristine and, at that time, little-traveled bottoms in the 70s. All you needed was a snorkel and fins, approach the rocks … Continue reading Searching for weightlessness
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
We know the route of the Silver...or the Silk, or the Tin, or the Gold. Everywhere, paths and maps were drawn to transport wealth from one place to another. The Romans blew up mountains and built engineering marvels that continue to amaze us centuries later. It's the same gold that Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was … Continue reading Gold Panning
Herrería, fabrica de la luz, molino de agua, martinete (Forge, power plant, water mill, hammer); words that we now only find written, names that only appear in spoken language when we approach ruins, abandoned in isolated and almost always distant places, on the margins of frequented paths or of lively towns. So distant in space … Continue reading Union, work, and perseverance
..."Animals without blood and many feet, that fly or walk, move with more than four points of support, like the animal called the ephemera [ephemeron], which moves with four legs and four wings: and, I may observe in passing, this creature is exceptional not only in terms of the duration of its existence, from which … Continue reading Siphlonurid larvae
Hierro, carbón, oro, plata, plomo, petróleo, estaño, cobre, mercurio, wolframio… ahora litio y coltán… la minería ha sido la clave para del desarrollo de todas las civilizaciones, el nacimiento de las grandes fortunas y el secreto de todos nuestros inventos. Pero las minas, a cielo abierto o en galería, han sido y son las formas … Continue reading Mine “La Constante”
Who says there are no aliens, Martians, beings from a science fiction movie in this world? You just have to look at a crab with childlike eyes. The trilobites, those giant bugs that populated our marine world millions of years ago, seem closer and more familiar to me than any living crab. In Boston, they … Continue reading Crab stew
