Tag: connectivity

  • Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood

    Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood

    “To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”  — Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (2007) “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.”   — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) “I started off down the ride from Deer Path to the moat, with the rain rat-a-tat-tatting on…

  • The I and the We

    The I and the We

    For this week’s post I wanted to share this poem by Adrienne Rich which came to me via Nora Bateson’s facebook timeline (thank you Nora), and speaks to me about one of the tragedies of modernity- the fixation on the individual. In Those Years In those years, people will say, we lost trackof the meaning…

  • The Certainty Merchants

    In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…

  • Savage Gods: Paul Kingsnorth may at last have found the real enemy of the environment, and they are words themselves.

                      Cooling off for six hours in a police cell in Esher, Surrey, in 1997, with King Arthur Pendragon taking up residence in the cell next door, I had a moment to reflect on the power of words, language and stories. We had both been arrested at…

  • Kinship (a Poem)

    Kinship Lima Cat sits at the edge of the kitchen window, Tail a-swishing, Muscles twitching.   Hunger brings the be-wintered Chickadees To the feeder, Forays from the surrounding firs and pines.   A black-capped bird alights on window ledge Strewn with sunflower seeds.   Back arched, Lima tenses; Her eyes fixed and focused, Her paw…