MANIFESTO

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Have you ever asked yourself:
What is the value of a single breath? 

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Air is invisible. 

Hard to see. 

Hard to value. 
 

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But it can no longer remain unseen. 
 

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Too hot not to feel it. 

Too dense not to sense it. 

Too vital to ignore. 
 

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We are here to remember this truth: 
 

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Breath is a temporary pact
of volatile exchange
between the animal and plant kingdoms.
 

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The outcome of photosynthesis. 
 

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The first communication between species, 

and perhaps the last. 

More than language. 

More than metaphor. 

 

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Auraforest 

digital library of lost scents

exists to restore our somatic memory 
 

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Sensory. 

Ecological.

Emotional. 

Memories stored in our bodies.

 

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To embody respect. 

To recall scents long forgotten. 
 

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Too easily forgotten. 
 

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While scientists labour 
 

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to revive lost species, 

to cool the planet, 

to rebuild conditions gentle enough for a single human breath,
 

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we are here. 
 

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Here, in this archive of belonging. 

Here, listening to the biochemical conversations of plants, 

fungi, bacteria, and insects. 
 

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Because if we cannot understand what was lost 
 

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while sensing, 

while imagining, 

while remembering 
 

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we will never remember that we are one 
 

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Living. Loving. Fighting. Smelling. Chatting.
 

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A breathing organism. 
 

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