“We look upon the world / to see ourselves in the brief moment that we are of the earth / a small fern in a crevice of the cliff face.” From our latest print volume, Time, read “We Look at the World to See the Earth,” by Ed Roberson. buff.ly/OPtSxQj

In celebration of Earth Day, this week's podcast invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. Listen here: buff.ly/zCQxfK1 Illustration by Daniel Liévano. @dghaskell.bsky.social

Join us @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social on Earth Day! Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in conversation with Katie Holten & Emily Raboteau to celebrate the publication of her book, MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 6pm PT / 9pm ET ZOOM, register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... #naturewriting

In honor of Pope Francis’s passing, we revisit his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’—a call to care for our common home, the Earth. In this essay, Paul Elie explores how religion and the natural world might come together for shared renewal. Read “Ecological Conversion.” buff.ly/22enhOi

This, by @nicktriolo.bsky.social, himself something of a fleet-footed mystic, on Thomas Merton, rewilding, the ghost of the Iberian lynx, and Portugal’s Coa River, is a stunner. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-smal...

“i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely” ~ Ntozake Shange

For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the living world shimmered with a divine feminine presence—a fecund and endless substance, sprung from the unseen world, that spoke to him from grove, in birdsong, on the breath of wind. Read our newsletter: Rewilding in the Company of Mystics. buff.ly/c2UQiO2

In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ

“The concept of an unchanging wilderness—its panoramas predictable, its seasons unrolling like backdrops in a school play—is a fiction.” Listen to “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social on this week's podcast. buff.ly/zCQxfK1

With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and despair. Read “A Small King” by @nicktriolo.bsky.social. buff.ly/TivAReZ

“The Painted Lady’s migration, chronicled in the photographer Lucas Foglia’s new book, “Constant Bloom,” is a powerful reminder of our interconnections with nature and our shared stake in an ever-changing world.” @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social

“Just as nature finds a way, Robin has found her devoted readers. And during a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher.” @lizgilbert.bsky.social on Robin Wall Kimmerer for Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2025.

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

“Once upon a time giants sculpted the sand, but now it is us who are the giants. The question we must ask now is how we use our power.” — @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0

Home to vast sands raised from the sea five thousand years ago, the wooden throne of a giantess, and legends of a vindictive dragon, the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea is a storied landscape that has been profoundly shaped by humans. Read this week's newsletter. buff.ly/XAeSq7I

4. Telling the Bees (Emily Polk, @emergencemagazine.bsky.social) "I love how Emergence Magazine publishes pieces that combine science, nature, and memoir. This mix of fact and personal perception makes for the most interesting reading." emergencemagazine.org/essay/tellin...

The Nightingale’s Song asks: What would it mean if the nightingale and its song were lost from the English landscape? Explore our new film series engagement guide, and reflect on how experiencing love and grief simultaneously can deepen your connection with your landscape. buff.ly/FwlqroV

“While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves.” Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J

Traversing the Curonian Spit, home to vast sands that move, rise, and may disappear entirely due to human activity, @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social journeys through the landscape’s buried past to understand how we have altered geological time. Read “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/VldxZZf

Join us for Offprint London at Tate Modern in London for three days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community. From Friday, May 16, through Sunday, May 18. buff.ly/KjPq8Ro

"Maybe the lesson then was the same as it is now: We are all just trying to survive. We are not done yet." —Emily Polk for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/07/t...

This series of documentaries from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social looks absolutely gorgeous emergencemagazine.org/feature/shif...

In this week’s podcast, Emily Polk learns of the enduring generosity and spirit of survival of these tiny creatures, and glimpses the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world. Listen to “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/ofwBkko

"While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves." – Emily Polk, from Telling The Bees [via @emergencemagazine.bsky.social]

This is gorgeous:

Referred to as sacred tears of God, emissaries for the ancestors, and message-carriers to the afterlife, bees have long resided at the heart of cultural practices straddling life and death. Read this week's newsletter, Telling the Bees Your Grief. buff.ly/20DO78t

A fine thing to listen to today, to set my soul in the right place for good trouble.

“I love that the origin of the word “reciprocity” comes from the Latin word that means “back and forth.” So there is a back-and-forth, a dance. The birds give, we give back, and we engage in a continuous dance of reciprocity.” —César Rodríguez-Garavito Listen to “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/pj6hs6M

I really loved this podcast. The song that emerged from it is beautiful and haunting. And, I have been left with a lot of questions about how I co-create with nonhumans in my work and how I can grant them the moral authorship they deserve...

Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival. Read this week’s essay, “Telling the Bees.” buff.ly/zHqQbvs

Our new companion Engagement Guide invites you to weave each film in our Shifting Landscapes series with your own story; host a film screening; open a dialogue within community; and cultivate a living connection with your landscape. buff.ly/eAa8x4h

This week’s podcast explores the creation of a song made not just in a forest, but in conscious collaboration with it. Listen to “Song of the Cedars,” a conversation with Giuliana Furci, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social. buff.ly/GRrqf53

This podcast and song are so beautiful and enlightening. If you stop in your tracks to listen to a bird, or if you write a poem or paint a scene after an encounter in nature, if you are concerned with the fragility of our ecosystems, I think you will be glad to spend time with this.

This is very cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...

This is brilliant and very provocative … the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador legally recognized as agent, author, and co-creator in collaboration with its human partners. I can’t stop thinking about this! More on MOTH (More Than Human Life) Project here: mothrights.org

Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to flow with love magic; to “swim in its currents” to offset the greed and extraction that is consuming the world. Listen to “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/7Vio14h

In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9

“This song came into being in that place and time…with the cloud forest, and all of its inhabitants—its rivers, its fungi, its birds, its creatures, its mist, its histories, its possible futures—as our co-author, as the co-creator.” @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

In this week's conversation, More Than Human (MOTH) Life Collective members share their ongoing project to gain legal recognition of a cloud forest in Ecuador as co-creator of the musical composition “Song of the Cedars.” buff.ly/fhVrrWz @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social

Introducing our Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide—a space for reflection, discussion, and practice on each of films’ explorations of uncertainty, loss, and great change in the places we call home. buff.ly/8AVkx7B

In this week's podcast episode, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband,” Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic and explores how we might slip between the cracks of the linear and maintain connection across time. buff.ly/tcyCuYT

“You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.” Read a new essay from Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta, “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/puXGsbM

A fascinating listen/read from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social by Tyson Yunkaporta “people of bad faith with extractive agendas of dominance and cruelty are incapable of love, and therefore incapable of time travel” emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-ti...

Lots to explore! I’m particularly looking forward to Jenny Odell on “the social and cultural ideas that underpin … mechanized time, and [how we] attune to the rhythms of the Earth and embrace interruptions that allow us to glimpse the inherent unpredictability and creativity of every moment.”

Traveling through time, in our science fiction imaginations, is often about going back through history or forward into the future. But how might we slip between the cracks of the linear, and maintain connection across time? Read this week's newsletter. buff.ly/qLNbP07

Kairos time, Deep time. As Bayo Akomolafe says: “ the times are urgent, we must slow down” … this kind of profound presence, needed now more than ever.

What choices, what futures, might become possible, @jennitaur.bsky.social asks, if we stepped out of chronos time and towards a kairos time? Listen to this week’s podcast episode from Volume 5, “Another Kind of Time: A Conversation with Jenny Odell.” buff.ly/lncRE2Z

Every week, new delight:

"You can’t use magic or make magic," writes Yunkaporta; "you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you. Such are the informatics of complex systems like land & sea & sky. People get excited about mycelia, but those are just the wires. Spirit is the signal." ♥️

Using the connective power of love magic and a traditional boomerang encoded with relational knowledge, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta throws “spears” at the arrow of linear time. Read “The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband.” buff.ly/F2VmWD4