Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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rights of nature

The law is in the ground

Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Aboriginal man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that…  Read More…

Everything is alive and we are all relatives

Transcript “Everything is alive, and we are all relatives.” The sentence showed up in an essay I read this week by a Native Hawaiian philosopher named Manulani Aluli Meyer. Manulani was quoting a teacher of hers who said that this one sentence, with its two simple ideas, is what Indigenous peoples from around the world…  Read More…

The Law is in the ground

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…