“…hardly anyone, to my knowledge, is expressing concern about the removal of humans from the roles within the ecosystem that we have evolved to play, and that Nature has evolved to have us play. Nor is anyone conducting studies to determine what these roles were or what changes have occurred because we no longer fulfill [...]
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Book Review- Gardners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature
Posted in Literature, Uncategorized, tagged environmentalism, hunting and gathering, restoration on September 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Trauma, Collapse & Rewilding
Posted in Collapse, Literature, Philosophy on January 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
In the book I recently reviewed Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind I found a link to a very interesting article: Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory, and Permaculture by Lisa Rayner. The article closely approaches something I have thought for a long time, that Gaia, the Earth, is sick with the disease of civilization and that [...]
Book Review- Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature In Mind
Posted in Literature, tagged ecopsychology, ecotherapy, Rewilding on December 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When I first became the way I am, that is essentially a primitivist, one of the main influences on my developing philosophy was a college course in the field of ecopsychology. Ecopsychology begs the question: How can anyone be truly sane if the way we treat our planet is fundamentally insane? How does our environment [...]
Burn the Libraries
Posted in Literature on November 3, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I generally don’t care much for poetry, but I do have a favorite, The Tables Turned, by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Andy, my boyfriend at the time, sent it to me on a series of postcards when I was first getting into rewilding. The first poem below provides the background for the second. According [...]
