There are no lines here nor frontiers, water and earth are stateless in this their contingent elemental state.
In any ecology it is the porous nature of these meeting points that enables energy to flow one into the other.
And, it is here that maximum diversity is found and expressed as sheer living vivacity.
Thus the life force is shared between all and in that sharing multiplied many times over.
This is the Gaian commons, it is not a utopian idea, rather it is a practical reality that creates the abundance of life on Earth.
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Photo: Lakeside at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.