The Professor Luís Carlos Pinheiro Machado, from the federal universities of RS – BR and SC – BR, was also president of EMBRAPA in 1985. Writer, and a high-level scholar of Agronomy, recently toasted us, bringing us a book by Sir Albert Howard, whose name is the same as that article you read. The translation […]

A friend told me that he read a sentence on the internet and got scared. It was this: “How strange people are…. they leave their son in a nursery, the father in an asylum, and go for a walk with the dog ”.  I asked him who was the author, so I could quote him […]

– Don’t pee on the floor! – Flush after use. – Keep this place clean. After you, others will use this toilet. Yes it’s true. I’m not making anything up. Anyone traveling through Brazil has seen this. These instructions are pasted to the walls of many bathrooms out there. At least, in the men’s bathrooms, […]

When you see an arrangement of flowers on the table, what can we feel? Joy in the heart? Want to smell it? Indifference? And … after a few days or weeks, when they wither, and the petals start to fall on the table? What would the feeling be? You may not have thought about it […]

Putting on my shoes, I was walking on a sidewalk older than my boots. When I passed over a small hole, which time made in the cement, I couldn’t resist. I took a step back and started watching it. I saw that the hole contained some pebbles inside it. I also saw that some dry […]

Once upon a time there were two girls, who lived in a distant country, called Green. It had this name because it was all green, when seen from the top, from an airplane for example. But, getting closer, the single green turned into many different tones, even in other colors. The shades of green were […]