COVID-19, Ecology Big and Small
Lincoln Stoller2023-01-27T16:58:56-08:00Real ecology is a way of being. Humans cannot plan a sustainable ecology until we have a broader awareness of our effects.
Real ecology is a way of being. Humans cannot plan a sustainable ecology until we have a broader awareness of our effects.
I don’t make a big deal of it, but I think questions of spirit are questions of meaning, reason, and purpose, and, in this regard, natural science has spirit.
How networks can create a way of measuring, and how this measurement can evolve as a network changes.
How we gain knowledge through struggle, danger, and fear. Learning in nature in pursuit of engagement.
I’m interested in networks because I suspect they can describe aspects of nature beyond mathematics and sentences.
Many things come naturally to us, but thinking is not one of them. There are many forms of thinking. We are primarily taught only two: linear and emotional.
The critical idea behind deep nature connection is not nature, it’s connection. Nature is the mirror because nature holds the chaos of the interaction of relevant things.
Love is hugely misunderstood, but closely related to harmony and balance, and grows from those things. I’ve created an audio file to bring to you some of the ideas and associations that came to me during this walk.
"A long time ago, before I can even remember, I saw a picture of a balloon-like animal conjectured to live in the atmosphere of Jupiter. That image caught my imagination, and stuck with me... and now I have
"And after a while we found ourselves on the racked and dusty, beat-up logging track, crested a hill and dropped our packs above to a briar-choked creek bed. We repacked, ate some food, and wondered
"We talk about the lifetime of a system as the time over which it works, between its beginning and its end, and for stars that shine this is a long time. "What does it mean
"Have you ever looked at something without seeing it, only later to find that you were looking at it all the time? Have you not suddenly 'seen' your keys or your cup of coffee after having scanned the room for the tenth time? How many times will we look into the dark night sky before we are able to see what's in front of us?..."