Issue Nº 01 Perspective
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times.
We believe in the power of story to renew an ancient and widely forgotten truth: that the earth is an interdependent, unified, and living ecosystem, of which we are but one part.
Through emerging stories we explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
. . .
- Earth
- A:shiwi
- Trees
- Nomads
- Place
- Salmon
- Tibet
- Pin Oak
- Time
- Migration
- Linear
- Mapping
- Circular
- Nebraska
- Drokpa
- Prairie
- Future
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, that primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know:
am I a falcon,
a storm,
or
a great song?
We have broken the circle,
and made ourselves a new
image to live by.
Not a return,
but an onward movement.
Not a cycle,
but a progression.
Not a circle,
but a straight line.
The
Contributors
Staff Picks
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Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System
MultimediaFollowing a nine-thousand-year journey, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the ancient technology embedded in our relationship with corn.
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Born Was the Mountain
EssayIn this in-depth investigative story, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder explores the collision of values unfolding on the summit of Mauna Kea, the proposed site for what would be the largest telescope in the world.
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Magic and the Machine
EssayIn this essay, David Abram offers notes on technology and animism in an age of ecological wipeout.
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A Possible River
Photo essayFollowing the Los Angeles River from source to sea, this photo essay is a meditation on the human desire to tame the natural world.
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The Great Work
EssayIn this essay, Paul Kingsnorth reflects on writing as an alchemical process, one involving transformation, discipline, and purification.
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Mud and Antler Bone
PodcastIn this interview, Martin Shaw offers an extended reflection on the intelligence that lies at the heart of myths.
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Winds of Awe and Fear
EssayNick Hunt explores the mythological understanding of winds as gods for the awe, exhilaration, and fear that they invoke.
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Sanctuaries of Silence
360 VideoSanctuaries of Silence is an immersive listening journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America.
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Lovely Monster
Photo essayPhotographer Camille Seaman captures the beauty, awe, and fear of the natural world through portraits of storms across America.
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When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet
EssayIn the age of the Anthropocene and entrenched politics of whiteness, Bayo Akomolafe brings us face-to-face with our own unresolved ancestry.
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Lost World
VideoAs Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, and communal way of life are threatened.
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From Dirt
EssayCamille T. Dungy reflects on the legacy and journey, triumph and trauma, of seeds.
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Earthrise
MultimediaAdapted from the documentary “Earthrise,” this multimedia story explores the first image of the Earth captured from space in 1968.
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