Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
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54. Seeing Each Leaf as a Separate Thing
And why talking with trees is the start of real learning
Jan 17, 2025
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28. Seeing Each Leaf
Insights from a Yurok man, shared with an anthropologist, for learning from the spirit of a tree
Oct 29, 2021
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12. Love in a Time of Catastrophe
How connecting with nature opens the flow of love in the heart, inspired by an essay by Barry Lopez; plus, a few everyday practices for connecting with nature from home
Aug 21, 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.