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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

11/23/2025, 5:11:54 AM

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The Whispers of Rock by Anjana Khatwa, 2025

The Stories That Stone Tells About Our World And Our Lives

If you listen, can you hear the stones speak? The question seems absurd. After all, rocks are lifeless, inert, and silent.
In The Whispers of Rock, earth scientist Anjana Khatwa asks us to think again and listen to their stories.

#books
#nonfiction
#geology
#rocks

Boldly alternating between modern science and ancient wisdom, Khatwa takes us on an exhilarating journey through deep time, from origins of the green pounamu that courses down New Zealand rivers to the wonder of the bluestone megaliths of Stonehenge, from the tuff-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia, to Manhattan’s bedrock of schist. In unearthing those stories and more, Khatwa shows how rocks have always spoken to us, and we humans to them.

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

11/23/2025, 5:14:27 AM

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Extract from ‘Kinship is the Basic
Principle of Philosophy’

… For hundreds of years
certainly for thousands
Our Native elders
have taught us
‘All My Relations’
means all living things
and the entire Universe
‘All Our Relations’
they have said
time and time again…

Do you doubt still?
a rock alive? You say
it is hard!
it doesn’t move of its own accord!
it has no eyes!
it doesn’t think!
but rocks do move
put one in a fire
it will get hot won’t it?

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#rocks

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