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41. Why is the world so beautiful?

June 24, 2023

Transcript “Why is the world so beautiful?” This question inspired a young plant-loving woman of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation to go to college and study botany. Robin Wall Kimmerer tells the story in her luminous book Braiding Sweetgrass—how this question guided her as she earned a PhD and became a professor of botany, and how…  Read More…

Tagged With: awe, awe and wonder, benefits of awe, dryland forests, endemic, Hawaiian forests, native plants, restoration, science of awe, sea turtles, tropical forests, wetlands

 

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

 

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