Her work has been presented and supported by DukeArts, Carolina Performing Arts, Penn State University, Georgetown University, La MaMa, Dixon Place, amongst many others.

He replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism. Echoing older theorists, Harding suggests that Beauty is a “guide to right relationship with nature. Some ideas were good, interconnectedness, personal involvement and reconnection to nature / Gaia, but overall? In the pandemic summer of 2021, I started reading Rick Bass’s writing about the proposed Black Ram logging project in Montana’s Yaak Valley, and it awoke urgency in me reminiscent of that first realization I felt on the Mespaethes almost a decade ago. Based on James Lovelock's Gaia theory, Harding argues for a new perspective and relationship with the earth.

Ideally, the right practice of art should produce as many saints as the practice of spirituality,” he says, in what may be my favourite unauthorised comment in the book, because of its explosive velocity against the cultural grain. Written by ecologist Stephan Harding, Animate Earth argues that we need to establish the right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are indissolubly embedded - and to which we are all accountable. It was a resolute reclaiming of the mystery present in crip flesh, cells, and bones made of incommensurable earth. Chemical reactions, for instance, are described using human metaphors, such as marriage, to bring personality back into the world of rocks, atmosphere, water and living things.

I had longed to bury myself in the understory, to cover myself in the thousand-year blanket of the forest’s dreaming.For example, chemical reactions are described using metaphors from human life, such as marriage, attraction, repulsion etc, so as to bring personality back into the world of rocks, atmosphere, water and living things.

Buddhism is a sublime vehicle for teaching us certain truths; for refining awareness, training the mind and cultivating the wisdom of altruism and compassion. A fear that we had installed a large artwork on top of brutalized land for the sake of some compelling photographs without the land’s consent gripped me. Nothing could have prepared me to feel the dissonance of this enchanted and violated forest, on the lands of the Salish and Kootenai people. anche le soluzioni tecnologiche più brillanti potrebbero condurre al disastro se non vengono usate da esseri umani saggi. Actually, this water is brutalized, though “wounded water” sounds more poetic, pulls on our desire to perform the caretaker role of someone who knows how to tend to a wound.And so it was perfectly terrible timing that I was reading this just as Australia has scrapped its carbon tax. Within that paradigm, questions of ‘right action’ and ethical behaviour flounder against a backdrop of silence. Animate Earth argues that we need to establish a right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are indissolubly embedded - and to which, in the final analysis, we are all accountable. These are my heartbeat-funnies, who always remind me of the clashing contradiction and gift that is my life.