we need a new miracle of being human. we need a new miracle of being alive. - Ben Okri

The clearing was the beginning of an expressway. Building companies had levelled the trees. In places the earth was red. We passed a tree that had been felled. Red liquid dripped from its stump as if the tree had been a murdered giant whose blood wouldn’t stop flowing.

Is there anything more real than what we have created in our minds?

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.