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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

“Nature-based communities don’t have a voice because [modern] governance structures do not have a place for their voices. These ways of living with the land can disappear so quickly when they’re seen as primitive, not innovative.” — Julia Watson

Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism

Nature is like a sculptor continually improving upon her work, but to do it she chisels away at living flesh.

Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

“Death is never an ending in nature.” And because a garden is always a place of becoming, to make and tend one is a gesture of hope, that these seeds planted will sprout and grow, this tree will bear fruit, that spring will come, and so, probably, will some kind of harvest. It’s an activity deeply invested in the future.

Rebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses

Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.

Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries

We’re in dire need of a new cultural story to live by. Not to negate the old, as Sophie Strand writes, but to “compost” the stories that no longer serve us so they can become fertile ground from which a new story may emerge. A story that doesn’t tell us we’re separate from but deeply interconnected with all living beings. One that recognizes that h... See more

Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown

The life of a forest is many lives, entwined. It’s also intergenerational.

newpublic.org • The word for web is forest

Condemning such terms as ‘Sites of Special Scientific Interest’, ‘no-catch zones’, ‘reference areas’ and ‘natural capital’ for a lack of vision when describing the remarkable vitality and richness of the planet we inhabit, he went on to write, ‘Had you set out to estrange people from the living world, you could scarcely have done better.’ The

Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places

People like him show that a deeper intimacy with nature is possible and that this intimacy does not have to rely on the obliterative arrogance of Western culture.