relationship with nature
how humanity interacts with nature in both positive and negative ways, more philosophical than the 'climate/sustainability' tag
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relationship with nature
Soft Matter, Deep Time — Institute for Postnatural Studies
instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
If you’re spending zero time walking around in nature, it’s much less obvious that you should prioritize it than it is to someone spending even ten minutes a day touching the grass.
Nat Eliason • Known Costs, Unknowable Benefits
We have tried to relate to the world around us through only the left side of our brain, and we are clearly failing. If we are to re-establish a viable relationship, we will need to rediscover the wisdom of these other cultures who knew that their relationship to the land and to the natural world required the whole of their being.
Dolores LaChapelle • Ritual is Essential
Language can be a gift, and language can be a tool of colonialism.... See more
The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land
Olivia Vagelos • We Are Not the Only "Who"
Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People... See more
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmereremergencemagazine.org