“Every [natural] soundscape…generates its own unique signature, one that contains incredible amounts of information,” explains Bernie Krause, and when we listen closely, it “gives us incredibly valuable tools by which to evaluate the health of a habitat across the entire spectrum of life.” The voices of the natural world can inform us when an ecosy

The future is likely to demand more of us than we know how to give,

to change everything, we need everyone.

[“Compassion without anger can become merely sentiment or pity. Knowledge without anger can stagnate into mere cynicism and apathy. Anger improves lucidity, persistence, audacity, and memory.”]

I am afraid of dying, sure, but so far, it hasn’t been an issue.

“All that you touch you change / all that you change, changes you.” We are constantly impacting and changing our civilization—each other, ourselves, intimates, strangers. And we are working to transform a world that is, by its very nature, in a constant state of change.

Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit, nor water and tears. We are eroding and evolving, at once, like the red rock landscape before me. Our grief is our love. Our love will be our undoing as we quietly disengage from the collective madness of the patriarchal mind that says aggression is the way forward.

Nothing is wasted, or a failure. Emergence is a system that makes use of everything in the interactive process. It’s all data.

Living in this time of crisis, for our democracy as well as the climate, is breaking my heart open and creating space for new understanding. The weight of history is on our shoulders, but this moment is alive with possibility.] —