The strange genius—and limits—of living beings
A reflection on animal behaviour, evolutionary feedback systems and why living beings can appear both extraordinarily intelligent and strangely “dumb” depending on context.
the natural world
The Great Thinning and How it Impacts the Imagination
Our imaginations are rooted in the natural world. They formed in the natural world. They took their metaphors and similes from the natural world. It’s from the natural world that we thought that something might be strong as an oak tree or as fragile as a reed.
Remembering Doug Tompkins
We at Post Carbon Institute heard today with profound sadness of the sudden passing of Doug Tompkins—one of the world’s foremost conservationists and a great friend and supporter of our work and that of many other environmental organizations.
My Woodland Path
It is a come as you are, find a convenient rock, fallen tree or flat ledge of land, where the ritual begins when you are ready.
Getting Beyond the Green Wall: Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan and William Blake
One can read a landscape, a garden, a tree, a bird, or a poem.
The Ghosts of Islands Past
Several times a month I cycle by a small island located close to the south shore of Vancouver’s False Creek, a narrow inlet that separates the downtown peninsula from the city.
Mastodon Hill
The TAZ is an ever changing place for wild spirits to congregate.
