This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.
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Marc Barasch speaks on deforestation, planetary healing, and the Green World Campaign during the Climate Change Plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah October 15-19.
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.
The renowned “anthropologist under Amazonian influence” and indigenous rights activist Jeremy Narby, author of such classics as The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature, considers the intelligence of living beings and wrestles with his own culture’s anthropocentric concepts.
Jeremy Narby, an anthropologist, discusses the intelligence of life, nature, ayahuasca and DNA communication. The interview also discusses how modern man has overlooked the inherent intelligence in nature.