Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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29. Where Did We Go Wrong?
On historian Lynn White's famous thesis about Western culture's disconnect from nature and how he didn't get the genesis quite right—literally
Dec 5, 2021
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28. Seeing Each Leaf
Insights from a Yurok man, shared with an anthropologist, for learning from the spirit of a tree
Oct 29, 2021
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27. An Entwined Place
On the web of connection linking all, inspired by words of Teresa Ryan (Tsimshian Nation) and the mycelium network that she and Suzanne Simard study
Sep 17, 2021
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26. What’s Good for Creeks
Water as our earliest beloved—how I learned to cherish it and how everyone can work for its well-being
Jul 31, 2021
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25. Why Doesn’t Everyone Love Diversity?
Ecologists say that diverse communities are the most resilient. So why are so many white people afraid of diversity?
Jun 26, 2021
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24. A Duty of Care
Four Indigenous voices on how their communities build care for land and people into the fabric of life—and how care dropped out of Western public values
May 28, 2021
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23. Going on a Spirit Journey
A spiritual practice to open the heart and deepen your connection with nature
Apr 9, 2021
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22. An Inheritance Problem
What a story from Roman Empire times can tell us about making a world where equality is normal—and how it hinges on changing a legal system that protects property
Mar 5, 2021
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21. Committing to Your Hunger
On the confusion in Western thought about animals, appetites, and greed
Feb 2, 2021
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20. Finding Sweetness in Bitterness
Wise words from a Sufi teacher when times are tough
Jan 8, 2021
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19. Filling the Hungry With Good Things: A Christmas Meditation
The revolutionary song of a young mother-to-be about upending the social order
Dec 24, 2020
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18. A Crocodile, a Virus, and the False Promise of Supremacy
A crocodile attack on philosopher Val Plumwood sheds light on the "desperate delusion" of white COVID patients who, while dying, still deny the virus
Nov 20, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.