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Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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attitudes toward nature

21. Committing to your hunger

February 2, 2021

Transcript If you’ve ever watched a nature documentary, you’ve seen a clip of it—a lion with muscles rippling sweeping across the savanna toward a zebra or gazelle. The lion is fully committed to the chase, bursting into top speed at a moment’s notice to satisfy their hunger. When it comes to getting their food, animals…  Read More…

Tagged With: ancient Greek philosophy, attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, circle of life, Earth justice, ecological niches, economic growth, greed, Hesiod, hunger, hungry beasts, joy, justice, labor, predator-prey relationship, profit, sharing, work

 

10. Just like a tree

August 7, 2020

Transcript I’m thinking today about how a tree grows, from a seed. So I went to YouTube, and I found some time-lapse videos, just to watch the wonder of it all over again. There’s the seed, covered in damp soil. Then a few seconds in, something magical happens. We call it germination, but that’s such…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward nature, Augustine, capitalism, germination, gift of life, life force, original sin, poverty, Protestant work ethic, Protestantism, Sobonfu Somé, views of human nature

 

Opening to beauty

September 29, 2017

The scene above interrupted our dinner one recent evening, the sunset glow too beautiful to do anything but stare. We stopped eating and simply looked. Long golden rays kissed the tips of chamisa and rose and wild hyssop and Russian sage in our garden while at the same moment lighting up the Sandia Mountains a…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward nature, awe, beauty, garden, generosity, love, nature inspiration, nature spirituality, Sandia Mountains

 

Snuggle for survival

July 25, 2016

The phrase leaped out at me—from the pages of Scientific American, no less. Martin Nowak, a mathematician, biologist, and director of a program in evolutionary theory at Harvard, was arguing that cooperation, not just competition, advances evolution. In Nowak’s words: Life is therefore not just a struggle for survival—it is also, one might say, a…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, competition, cooperation, Darwin, economics, enclosure of the commons, evolution, Hobbes, human nature, Malthus, natural selection, struggle for existence

 

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