Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

We lend ourselves to gravity, becoming adjuncts of the ground itself. Only by thus renouncing the vertical stance—dropping away our upright individuality and leaning back upon the earth, letting our gaze become the gaze of Earth itself—do we make some sense of the endless depths in which Earth dwells.

some other-than-normal but beautiful practices for bringing reciprocity to the trees among us and the forests they create.

Human beings are the only species on the planet that has fallen out of step with creation. As a result, it is human beings that pose the greatest threat to life. The only way for us to regain our balance within creation is to once again find our balance with the natural world.

Moving toward a radical simplicity in these things is an act of bringing forth a more intentionally congruent life, a creative life beyond overt cultural narratives and expectations of society and family, in solidarity with all humans, all beings, and in reciprocity with the dreaming earth.