Philosophies of Dirt

2005-2012

“Dirt has a mind. In reading James Jack’s Philosophies of Dirt, here is one idea to which I propose we commit—that not only does dirt have a mind, it uses it. Dirt thinks. Dirt conceives itself in thinking. In that, dirt is, along with fire and other elements, adhering the sustenance and destruction of the earth into a single motivation, the social conscience of the earth.”

—Brandon Shimoda, poet