No single human can work to save the orcas and protect the Amazon and organize anti-fracking protests and write poetry that inspires others to act and pray in a hermit’s dwelling for transformation and get dinner on the table. How easy is it to feel paralyzed by obligations.
Read MoreThe Coast Salish people think trees have personhood too. They teach that the forest is made of many nations living side by side in peace, each contributing to this earth.
Read MoreWe are ecosystems, composed of—and decomposed by—an ecology of microbes, the significance of which is only now coming to light.
Read MoreI always find more answers in a forest than in my own hot attic of a mind.
Read MoreOaks support more forms of life and more fascinating interactions than any other tree genus in North America.
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