Leilani Kritzinger

One botanist who studies how sagebrush send distress signals to each other has found that individual plants appear to have different risk tolerance — a metric of personality, the very notion of which in an organism without a brain-based mind challenges our central assumptions about consciousness.

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.

As the ability to step out of the singular umwelt of one's particular species and make contact with another shape of sensitivity, another style of sentience, which verges on—and I mean, let's keep holding all these things close—what for me is maybe the most profound sense of magic...

Perhaps the Cook pine never wanted to leave New Caledonia. In a recent article in the journal Ecology, botanists from California Polytechnic State University reveal a novel behavior of the Cook pine — it always leans toward the equator.

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

There is no boat to bring you through the dark ocean of your anguished body…but your body itself. Storm and vessel are the same.

What is it like to be a bee? It is certainly not like being a tiny human with wings, a sting, and an appetite for nectar. It is something very different indeed. For every being comes a unique set of sensory apparatuses that filter and interpret the world. Imagine that you had five eyes. Feel those extra eyes on your head. Eyes covered in fine hair,