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I have come to think of these 3 qualities - paying intimate attention; a storied relationship to a place rather than a solely sensory awareness of it; & living in some sort of ethical unity w a place - as a fundamental human defense against loneliness. BL
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Joah Lev retweeted
18 Dec 2020
What if instead of embracing a free market system that touts individualism and monetary growth, we embrace a gift economy that functions through an ethic of reciprocity and interconnection? Robin Wall Kimmerer on reimagining our currencies of exchange. emergencemagazine.org/story/…
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Joah Lev retweeted
5 Dec 2020
"We should replace our nouns for naming things with verbs...."
From Tim Ingold's marvelous new book, Correspondences: google.com/books/edition/Cor…
(Love to see him critique 'entanglement' and 'more-than-human' thinking that still puts humans at the center)
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Joah Lev retweeted
4 Dec 2020
“mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral & tundra — essentially everywhere there is life on land. Together, these symbiotic partners knit Earth’s soils into nearly contiguous living networks of unfathomable scale & complexity” nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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Joah Lev retweeted
30 Nov 2020
“Maybe the only way to save the world is to re-enchant it,” Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, recently said . “To love things, and to feel that they have some kind of greater presence or power.” theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The times really are changing. Communities, politicians and landowners are starting to realise that restoring nature on a grand scale offers the surest pathway to ecological, economic and social renewal telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11…
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An excellent and inspiring conference on the ecology and practice of rewilding. Wish we had an organization similar to @RewildingEurope in the States.
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But when we think of all these creatures as part of a bigger process, a vast natural system that incorporates our tiny, tidy self-identified lives but is far more expansive—indeed, that is wildly inclusive in the very broadest sense... humansandnature.org/decompos…
Check out this new, beautifully produced digital magazine focusing on spiritual ecology and related topics.
emergencemagazine.org emergencemagazine.org/
Reciprocal Ecology is an emerging multidisciplinary field of study that explores people's social, reciprocal... fb.me/4lqUWEiG6
"Some people talk to animals [or trees]. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh fb.me/Q00vxuDD
A new book exploring the intelligence of plants. “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems and plants are... fb.me/1MRvnApM3
Our relationship with the natural world is about love...... fb.me/7bGQ5hC1O
Hopefully the beginning of a movement in which nations officially recognize other living beings as 'sentient'. fb.me/7kduMbCmb