When I read your essays, I’m certain we would be friends. :) I read Overstory last year, finished a biology degree with a special interest in trees, and I’ve now listened to Anthropocene Reviewed twice (cried both times). His chapter on existential/planetary nihilism/panic/devastation calmed something deep in my bones. Loving the Earth is so painful. Imagery of trees has come to me over and over again in my growth journey. I recently began listening to the podcast “Breaking Down Patriarchy”. (Very highly recommend) She shares that the oldest records of spiritual thought that we have as humans is of The Goddess, who is most commonly symbolized as tree or forest.
OMG any friend of trees and John Green AND The Good Place AND Breaking Down Patriarchy AND Wendell Berry (!!) IS DEFINITELY A FRIEND OF MINE!! haha those are like my favorite things. I've read snippets of Unsettling America in A World on Fire (compilation of Berry's best essays) - one of the books I think about the most. I love Wendell Berry. And I'm a HUGE fan of the Breaking Down the Patriarchy podcast- it kinda blew my mind.
Also, I think about The Good Place all the time and I want to bear my testimony that Braiding Sweetgrass is the word of God. Have you read Unsettling America by Wendell Berry?
When I read your essays, I’m certain we would be friends. :) I read Overstory last year, finished a biology degree with a special interest in trees, and I’ve now listened to Anthropocene Reviewed twice (cried both times). His chapter on existential/planetary nihilism/panic/devastation calmed something deep in my bones. Loving the Earth is so painful. Imagery of trees has come to me over and over again in my growth journey. I recently began listening to the podcast “Breaking Down Patriarchy”. (Very highly recommend) She shares that the oldest records of spiritual thought that we have as humans is of The Goddess, who is most commonly symbolized as tree or forest.
OMG any friend of trees and John Green AND The Good Place AND Breaking Down Patriarchy AND Wendell Berry (!!) IS DEFINITELY A FRIEND OF MINE!! haha those are like my favorite things. I've read snippets of Unsettling America in A World on Fire (compilation of Berry's best essays) - one of the books I think about the most. I love Wendell Berry. And I'm a HUGE fan of the Breaking Down the Patriarchy podcast- it kinda blew my mind.
Also, I think about The Good Place all the time and I want to bear my testimony that Braiding Sweetgrass is the word of God. Have you read Unsettling America by Wendell Berry?