Rewilding
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
an ecosystem isn’t just a list of living things (squirrel, tree, bee, flower); it’s the set of relationships between those living things (the squirrel lives in the tree, the bee pollinates the flower).
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“Why go through all of that to save one species?”
- There’s a simple answer to that. Today, species going extinct is just a symptom - a symptom of an already dying ecosystem. When we work to save one species, we help restore the entire ecosystem, setting off a ripple effect that benefits many others.
In the forest, every living thing – seen and unseen – gives and takes in ways essential to the ecosystem's survival, connected by invisible channels that run deep underground. Amidst the chaos of countless species, bacteria, and intertwined habitats, a delicate but historic balance exists, each part playing a crucial role in sustaining the whole.
... See moreIf one tree fruits, they all fruit—there are no soloists. Not one tree in a grove, but the whole grove; not one grove in the forest, but every grove; all across the county and all across the state. The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What
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