Fionnáin quoted Persons by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Kinship: Belonging In A World Of Relations, #4)
Time is there because things happen, because atoms meet, because stones breathe one another. Matter is social. Time arises because this cosmos cannot sit still. It needs to share and connect.
— Persons by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Kinship: Belonging In A World Of Relations, #4) (Page 49)
From the wonderful essay on making kin with lichen, Skincentric Ecology by Andreas Weber.