This colour of blood and earth speaks of sex, death and the endless metamorphoses of life.
But perhaps because the designation "fastest man on earth" speaks to such an elemental physical feat, or because he celebrates with unequaled brio, Bolt might have made the deepest and most lasting impression here.
Reiner speaks the Live Earth speak, but it is difficult to gauge how much, if anything, any of it will add up to: "This effort will be the springboard to a very big global conversation," he says.
Because Carter took on fairy tales, she was sometimes pigeonholed as a "white witch," the sort of person who reads Tarot cards and believes that the earth speaks to her.
Deepa Narayan, a Indian woman with a steely gaze who spends much of her time in the poorest villages on earth, speaks of power, voice and equality as the keys to ending poverty.
Even in its winter shroud, the earth speaks through pattering rain and muffling snow.
Here's a brief synopsis: The story begins by saying, "the whole earth spoke one language" (Gen 11 1).
His hymn to "brother sun" and "sister moon," "brother wind" and "sister, mother earth" speak to medieval understandings of the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world somewhat lost in a modern era.
More than that, her vague call for reconnecting to the land by "being barefoot on the earth" speaks to a kind of entitlement of the white lady settler who is at ease with "finding" what "the alternative world says" and using it for her own, electromagnetic, ends.
Ironically, the sky-scraping aviator's greatest risk was among the most down-to-earth: speaking in front of a public audience.
