Nature is imagination itself. Let us not re-imagine it, then, but begin to imagine anew, with nature as our co-conspirator: our partner, our comrade and our guide.

When we open ourselves to the voices of the more-than-human world, this is always the result: a breaching and collapsing of the established borders of thought and feeling.

Until quite recently, all human cultures have been built on the concept of unity with the natural world. In fact, interdependence is one of our oldest ideas, one that’s common to indigenous people in Australia, Africa, and North and South America. It’s been our default view for the overwhelming majority of human history. It’s only been in the last