in the world and of it

Geology, with its focus on tangible records of the distant past, offers a bridge between human experiences of the world and the awe-inspiring but cold and formidable emptiness of space. Learning to read the storylines of Earth’s history directly from rocks — understanding the plots and protagonists that shaped the places where we live — can help to

How to generate heat within your body, from your belly, in times of excruciating and unending cold? Or how to douse for water in the depths of an ongoing drought? [These] very practical, bodied practices, not just bodied, but they're always about the body and its relation to the larger body of the world, or of the Earth.

So much of the world is not made by people, and paying attention to that is important to me.”