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Nature as Teacher
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Then the small trees that got chopped down today wouldn’t go to waste. They added nutrients to the soil and could even prevent landslides. I pondered these things as I followed Iwao back up the slope.
Juliet Winters Carpenter • The Easy Life in Kamusari
If a bird is sounding its song, we can be reasonably sure that there’s no evident danger lurking about.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”
Paul Rosolie • Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The tree does its best with what it gets.
Gregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
In his 1993 memoir The Thunder Tree, ecologist Robert Pyle coined the term “extinction of experience,” and since then many researchers have jumped into the fray. There are bodies of work on the demonstrable decline of kids’ contact with nature, as well as the negative impacts of this trend—most alarmingly captured in Richard Louv’s 2005 Last Child
... See moreSteven Rinella • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
“If we were told from above just how