Earthling
The river, the trees, the soil, other alienated people... the more time you spend with each, the more attention you give to each, and the more you love each, the less alone in all of this you will feel. It is from this place that others can be invited. Hearts may even change.
Love is the Answer to Climate Crisis (Yes, I’m Serious)
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... See more
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
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
When we arrive into the world, we enter this ancient sequence. All our beginnings happen within this continuity. Beginnings often frighten us because they seem like lonely voyages into the unknown. Yet, in truth, no beginning is empty or isolated. We seem to think that beginning is setting out from a lonely point along some line of direction into... See more
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O'Donohue on Beginnings
Developing a collective sense of ourselves as Earthlings - native inhabitants of an old, durable planet - may bring reassurance in a time when so many human systems that once seemed robust are showing signs of fragility.
Marcia Bjornerud
A mountain is not swayed by the wind. And human beings, if they don’t know how to sit, to breathe, they may be swayed back and forth by their emotions, strong emotions, like winds. And practicing this, we become more solid, like a mountain.
There are people who do not know how to handle their emotions, especially the big emotions. And when they are
... See more- 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
I barely registered the landmark that life on Earth had just passed: A few self-replicating molecules, after four billion years of random walks shaped by nothing more than trial and error, had learned how to measure the infinitesimal dimming of light from trillions of miles away with enough precision to infer the transits of minuscule invisible
... See moreRichard Powers
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