Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 9 essays tagged Indigenous values
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62. Connecting with Nature's Ways
On a path of nature spirituality, even politics goes through nature
Mar 26, 2026
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Caring for the Local Earth, Post-Election Edition
Because hills and rivers remain
Nov 26, 2024
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50. A Huge Climate Win in Hawaiʻi
Led by young people. But why are kids doing this work?
Jul 3, 2024
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30. Cultivating Nature Spirituality
Two simple—but not easy!—practices for beginning a spirituality of nature: opening the heart and widening the perception
Jan 28, 2022
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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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17. The Law Is in the Ground
How the Aboriginal elder Doug Campbell followed the law of earth—and how this law contrasts with Western law, designed to protect property
Oct 30, 2020
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16. Loving the Earth: A New Traditional Value
Choosing different values, with Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec) of the climate movement; Nemonte Nenquimo (Waorani) of the Amazon rainforest; and Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi), a Great Lakes writer of 1893
Oct 16, 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.