How to Listen When Nature Speaks
A new toolkit from Talking Rivers invites organizations to rethink their relationship with the living world—through language, governance, and the simple act of listening.
An old Haudenosaunee token of wisdom states:
“the Creator gave us two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, but only one mouth, so we would look, listen, and breathe twice as much as we speak.”
Look around, and you’ll see the splintering of ecosystems and the relentless extraction of resources. Listen, and it’s the drone of traffic and aircraft that fills the air instead of the trill of songbirds. Breathe in, and too often it’s the sting of wildfire smoke where there was once the scent of pine.
Nature is sending us signals every moment. Yet we’ve been taught to tune them out, growing accustomed to drowning out its pleas with our own noise.
Author's summary: Nature sends signals, but we tune them out.
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