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As some North American urbanites engaged in what Indigenous scholar Kelsey Leonard has called “entitled escapism” — fleeing cramped apartments for more spacious country homes, trading compaction and contagion for “bountiful space” and “fertile suspension” — some sovereign Indigenous nations refused to allow these settler-migrant populations to pass... See more

Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing

She wants readers to adopt and embody an ethos that makes room for the vitality of matter. In her view, it’s a useful attitude. “Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy or inspiration to enact ecological projects,” she writes. We might find it hard to “contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously t

Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things

It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.”

Lisa See • The Island of Sea Women (201 POCHE)

The wild nature would never agree to flog the form in order to prove worth, prove “control,” prove character, be more visually pleasing, more financially valuable.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

But the humans have her in their grip, and she’ll never get free again.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Abundance This abundance of berries feels like a pure gift from the land. I have not earned, paid for, nor labored for them. There is no mathematics of worthiness that reckons I deserve them in any way.

Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

We cannot breathe. This is our mantra in America now.

Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest

Eatonville was the first incorporated Black town in the United States. It was established in 1887 by freedpeople who, through collective purchases, established and advertised their town as a place of possibility for African Americans. They built wood-frame houses, schools, and a municipal government. It provided a refuge from the violence just outs