Partners in Place

"Creating the Seasons and Cycles charts transformed my perception of the year. Our calendar - with its depiction of the year as a series of daily or monthly pages that you remove to get to the next day or month - emphasizes a linear, cumulative view of time at the expense of the cyclical rhythms of moon phases and seasons experienced by all other forms of life. By depicting the year as a circle, I made a Copernican leap away from the human-centered way of tracking time towards a more ecological, biocentric perspective. Just as the Copernican revolution placed the Earth into the larger context of the universe, the seasonal wheel places our calendar back into the larger context of life as a whole: within the biosphere of a living, breathing planet. And lastly, because the pageantry of the ever-unfolding biosphere is beautiful, I feel that the charts should be beautiful as well."
~Ken Lassman, author of Wild Douglas County, Mammoth Press, Lawrence KS