Earthling
- What that suggests is that our brain is adapted to feeling that the world is a beautiful place. Try to imagine having no sense of beauty at all.
- Alexa: So are you saying that our proclivity, our attraction to beauty is sort of the world's reward to us for being here and being alive and making it worth it in the first place? Carl: Yes.
11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina — Life WorldsLifeworlds is a podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. We...
Carl Safina
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us. - ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
The goal of one-planet thriving has been reinforced by a growing recognition that human beings are not separate from nature but an interdependent part of the living planetary whole.
Roman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
If we truly live into the fact that we are life, that we are nature, and as such are bound by kinship and interdependence to the community of life that human and planetary health depend upon, we will come to regard the creation of a globally regenerative civilization
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
Small actions, like learning about the ecological roles of species (such as bats or wolves), spending mindful time in nature, or exploring Indigenous perspectives, can help build this deeper philosophical connection. These inner shifts ripple outward, influencing how we view ourselves not as masters of the natural world, but as stewards and custodi... See more
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
I want to understand how we humans do that—how we earn a place on this precious planet, get in the “right relationship” with it.5 So I am focusing on the ways creatures and ecosystems function together in and with the natural world.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
We are embedded in the living world, not separate from or above it: we live within the biosphere, not on the planet.
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Cosmopolitanism—an ancient Greek concept meaning “being a citizen of the world”—would be the defining characteristic of a global identity. It would celebrate diversity between cultures while recognizing the deep interdependence that binds all people into a single moral community with a shared destiny.