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A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
Lawrence-wright • The Elephant in the Courtroom
There is an art to flocking: staying separate enough not to crowd each other, aligned enough to maintain a shared direction, and cohesive enough to always move toward each other. (Responding to destiny together.) Destiny is a calling that creates a beautiful journey.
Joy Harjo • All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene
... See moreTara Westover • Educated: A Memoir
“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl
... See moreAldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
“Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and big-leaf maples surround the house so tightly they take away the horizon. Some-times, when their crowns sway in the wind, I have the sense that I'm living at the bottom of a kelp forest. The expanse of this montane forest, like the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, is something I feel, and against this volume of spa
... See moreI believe that it is also important to claim wildness as a state of mind and a way of being.
Lyanda Lynn Haupt • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
in April 2019, “There’s something that is truly Californian about the wilderness and the wild and pioneering spirit.” And so, every taxpaying Californian was asked, realizing it or not, to finance the protection of homes built in places where fire was sure to burn.