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The Crane's 3,000-Kilometre Journey
A crane's 3,000-kilometer journey across the span of a continent is propelled by a felt unison between its flexing muscles and the sensitive flesh of this planet. These migratory folks are not taking readings from technical instruments, or mathematically calculating angles, they are responding attentively to allurements and gestures in the topological manifold that reach them from afar. So perhaps it would be useful to consider the large collective migrations of various creatures as active expressions of the earth itself. They are improvisational experiments that gradually stabilized into habits now necessary to the ongoing metabolism of the sphere.