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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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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

 

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

 

The Law is in the ground

November 28, 2016

Of the many voices I included in Kissed by a Fox, one has stayed with me longer than just about any other. That voice belongs to Doug Campbell, an Aboriginal man from Australia who worked with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose. Campbell said in Rose’s Dingo Makes Us Human, You see that hill over there?…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aboriginal philosophy, breathing, capitalism, choice, competition, cooperation, Darwin, Deborah Bird Rose, Earth law, ecocide, ecocommunity, ecological economics, evolution, law, laws of nature, natural law, reciprocity, rights of nature

 

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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