Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

A small plant

  • The 11-year-old has died following an accident. It plays with the ball and at any given moment it hits a plant and destroys it. It's a small, thick leaf plant that lives in a stitch. He picked up the ball. He wrote a note on a paper and left it on the floor. And it's gone.

25 September 2020 - 13:25

When the plant caregiver arrives, go and take the piece of paper. There is a five-euro banknote on paper. He read the note on paper. He looked at the floor and looked at the sky. Until you realize that you have the lost view beyond the horizon. It holds the tears. He looked back at the plant.

Giovanni Grandi is a neighbor of the plank. This is a professor. Taught at the University of Padua two subjects “Theoretical and historical foundations of philosophical anthropology” and “Analysis of conflict, forms of justice and remediation practices”. He is currently a professor at the University of Trieste, in the department of Political and Social Sciences, and a professor of Moral Philosophy.

The vegetarian, Giovanni's neighbor, has taught him the piece of paper he has found on the plant. Two, three times you have read the text on the same page. He looked in the eyes of his neighbor and he could not hold the tears.

When he calmed down, the professor said: “You can only start my next course in Public University Ethics.”

The note that the child wrote on the edge of the paper reads as follows: “Hi, I’m sorry for the floor: I accidentally played a soccer ball. Here are five euros for damages.” He's wearing a signature underneath.

The ability to take care of and take responsibility for others and to explain this attitude in favour of a solution should be underlined. But all this for a plant, for a plant! What would we do if we were in place?

Here's the most important part: a plant. Even if it was the largest tree, it would be no more than a plant for most. Nothing, let alone what the euro does not deserve.

Once it occurred to me that in one of the works being carried out by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the trees and trees next door were damaged and I had to go on behalf of the city council that owned them to talk about the repair with the engineer of the work. The proud engineer told me. “The damage of these trees? Please, we make roads!”


You are interested in the channel: Landareak
2024-12-27 | Leire Ibar
The success of the champagne industry is based on exploited labour
The Guardian newspaper analysed the situation of migrants working in the champan industry in Épernay, France. The study reveals the precarious and illegal conditions of those working in vineyards of luxury mushroom brands.

2024-12-23 | Irati Diez Virto
I'm not a mouse, I'm not a topo; I'm a mousetrap.
When you hear the word mammal, often the first representatives that come to mind are the biggest ones: the bear, the wolf, the deer… Sometimes the first ones to appear are the domesticated cat or the dog, or distant lions and elephants. Spectacularity usually gains competition... [+]

At Christmas, consume local and seasonal and, by the way, boycott Israeli products
Hunger is one of the main weapons used by Israel for the genocide of the Palestinians. On the one hand, the ban on food entering Gaza and, on the other, the abolition of Palestinian food sovereignty.

2024-12-23 | Jakoba Errekondo
Pea hearing
We will soon have delicious pea tears all year round (Pisum sativum). But it is still winter and spring, the season of fresh peas almost entirely; now begins the planting of the last peas we will eat in spring. And now we're going to eat those who sowed towards October.

2024-12-23 | Garazi Zabaleta
Ekin Dulantzi
Agri-food test area in Dulantzi
We have more and more agricultural test points, that is to say, training spaces in agriculture and livestock before we start your project. The Zunbeltz space of Navarre and the Trebatu de Gipuzkoa and Ipar Euskal Herria are some of the examples that have been launched. Since... [+]

2024-12-16 | Jon Torner Zabala
Sidra Vasca
North and South, centuries-old tradition under the same hat
The Euskal Sagardoa Designation of Origin has been challenged: Collection of apples and sidreros from all over the Basque Country. “The cider culture is all over the territory and apples have been kept for cider throughout the territory,” says Unai Agirre, coordinator of the... [+]

2024-12-16 | Garazi Zabaleta
Production of Ozaeta apple juice (barrundia)
8,000 litres of apple juice produced in 900 inhabitants
“Will I take out an apple juice?” With this question begins an interview with the members of the Economate of Barrundia Koldo López Borobia, Susana López de Ullibarri and Santi Txintxurreta. We've gathered around the apple bridge and in the garden surrounded by apples. This... [+]

2024-12-16 | Garazi Zabaleta
Group of Zuberoa
Collective garden in Maule to sow social relations
One of the lines of work of Xiberoko Kolektiboa is to promote the network between citizenship and spaces for social life. On this road, in 2020 they were presented with the opportunity to create a collective garden in Maule and, no doubt, decided to undertake the project. “It... [+]

2024-12-16 | Jakoba Errekondo
Business chocolate addiction
Chocolate is born from cocoa. Cacao is called Theobroma cacao; Theobroma means “food of the gods.” It's been a long time since the cult of chocolate; what was of the gods we did quickly. In the Basque Country, it is one of the largest in food imports along with sugar and... [+]

Gold in the head, most in aquaculture
There are several species that seem forced to always remain in the fishmongers. A fish among them has a special glow, because it looks at us with a golden crown: golden (also in Spanish, obeying the same characteristic, golden). Along with them there is a lot that look like... [+]

Where is the people?
The boundary between micro and macro concepts is diffuse, and although interaction is diffuse, it also influences. Also in us. The problem comes when in the fog blindness we don't get right where we are, where the people are.

2024-12-09 | Jakoba Errekondo
Bread of Errasti
Lenteja navarra in peas
Holy heaven, holy heaven! The sky, the magic, the maginxeta, the tongue, the magin, but, the eagle of the peas, the stain, the teak or, the best known, the sheath. Is there something as beautiful as the legume, the grain of legumes, the legume or the sheath that it carries... [+]

2024-12-09 | Garazi Zabaleta
Bread of Errasti
Bread created with the knowledge of the above and macrobiotics
The Errastiko Ogia project, powered by Xabi Abasolo Etxabe and Naiara Uriarte Remedios, is located in the Beroña district of Arrasate. Everyone came to the bakery world on their own, but in the ecological model and in the production of mother dough they have very well combined... [+]

Forest hunter
It's at night. The moonlight passes through the few leaves left in the trees. Silence is absolute. Birds sleep between weeds, protected, asleep. But suddenly something hit his stomach. Most birds have been frightened, but they've been freezing, silently. The fool, terrified, flies... [+]

2024-12-02 | Jakoba Errekondo
Gintonika wedding
It was last night. The Sorbía Gintonic family. I've been divorced from gynecology for a long time. I really like peas, very wet teeth, but I can't drink tonic, too sweet and too many rude pompas.

Eguneraketa berriak daude