Living Earth

Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth

Journal Article

"The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. ...They are part of the Cura Da Terra, "Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon."

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2 By Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors

Journal Article

Nature tends to live in ribbons—the forest corridor, the mountain range, the coastline, and the winding river. Any ecosystem that is disconnected from similar (or different) ecosystems will eventually die.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2 By Teresa Coady

The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna

Journal Article

We cannot return to the innocence of an earlier time, but this bond between humanity and creation remains, hidden beneath all the debris of our culture.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2 By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Fragile Gold

Journal Article

All wealth is derivative of Earth—most of all, values and wisdom. They are among the most recent emergent properties of our Universe's 13.8 billion years of inexpressibly glorious creativity, complexification of matter and energy, and deepening of consciousness.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 1 By Sam Guarnaccia

Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature

Journal Article

One of Thomas Berry’s major contributions to what he called the Great Work was his articulation of the principles and philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 4 By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

The Holy Grail of Restoration

Journal Article

Over historical time the vegetative cover and evolutionary biodiversity of the Sinai has been in large part lost. Imagine the importance if it were possible to restore the region to ecological health.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 2 By John D. Liu

Turtles Among Us

Journal Article

Shouldn’t we be paying attention when the turtles head for high ground and wander among us with a kind of desperation? When at their most vulnerable, they come to us? There are many ways to ask why and many ways to answer.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 1 By Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD

Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos

Article

This has been perhaps the essential lesson I’ve taken from my time at Genesis Farm: that we humans have the possibility to awaken from what Berry deemed the ‘technological trance,’ a deep fixation and obsession for progress through technological development and unlimited economic growth.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By Mark Phillips

An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm

Article

The only way we can really be effective is to come home and understand our own ecosystems. This sequential process is the most fundamental learning we should be given. Only then we can ask: is our behavior enhancing what the natural world is doing, or is it the cause of the disease and the sickness? That is why our energies at Genesis Farm have been so focused on bioregionalism.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017 By Miriam Therese MacGillis, Rhonda Fabian

Unheard Invitations: Piercing the Veil Between Species

Article

What we do not attend to cannot reach us. If we don’t know to listen, we cannot hear. But the animals are calling us. It doesn’t matter what animal it is or where we are. Any of us can experience this. It is our heritage and it is inherent in the nature of Life if only we realize the possibility and open ourselves up to it. When you go into nature, tune in more deeply. Life is calling to life.

Published in Fall | Winter 2016 By Susan Eirich