high branches) by my father. The olive and almond trees, always bearing fruit that we ate with passion: crushing and marinating olives with my older brothers, boiling and peeling almonds with my mother. The smell of the carobs falling to the ground and the taste of the grapes on the vine at the beginning of autumn. And the beautiful lilies that were born only once a year in the soil square. Memories merge with the present, because we still preserve and care for the Hortet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deep green solitude of the Tinen\u00e7a de Benifass\u00e0. Ideal for a mystery story with few characters and a lot of environmental tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The air conditioning on full blast. And in X\u00e0tiva, in summer, most days we have it on for more hours than off… To compensate, I haven’t been taking planes for a long time now and I always try to buy clothes made in an ecological and local manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will say three: purify polluted air, get rid of plastic waste from all the water on the planet and regenerate forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A snake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really liked the Botanical Garden of Ayuda in Lisbon. I did a research stay in the Portuguese capital and used to go to the garden a lot to read and walk around. The area with the tropical trees was particularly impressive and you forgot where you really were: it looked like the Congo, or what in my European imagination might be the Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, a book, of course! Any book from the Elba publishing house, which has some great ones on gardens. Something sweet for a snack, maybe some good sweet potato cakes. And finally, time, time not to rush and to enjoy the afternoon slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will never go out of fashion. I especially like to give plants as presents. I gave my mother a beautiful jasmine for her balcony at the X\u00e0tiva Fair last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a film, I would say the palm trees in Apocalypse Now, which are meant to represent the landscapes of Vietnam, but are actually from the Philippines, where Coppola shot the film. That exuberant, jungle-like nature, that inhospitable river, full of dangers, configures a natural world that expels the yankees, that can overcome them, that overcomes them. Che Guevara used to say: \u2018Create two, three… many Vietnams, that’s the slogan\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a book, I choose Soledad, by V\u00edctor Catal\u00e0 (Caterina Albert), where the mountain is as much a protagonist as Mila, the young woman who settles there with her husband to act as a hermit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nature’s capacity for regeneration is great. Remember when we stopped for three months because of the pandemic and, in that time alone, pollution levels dropped dramatically and the planet became fluffy. If we go extinct tomorrow, planet Earth, fauna and flora, have millennia of bliss without us: climate change would not progress. But with us around, I see it as very complicated. We are the most destructive of all the species that have ever populated the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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