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"The World Is Too Much With Us"

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This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence;...

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Suzanne Simard
2025
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Carl Sagan's Widow Ann Druyan on the 'Mythic, Biblical Power' of a Solar Eclipse | Time

The solar eclipse that will cross the U.S. on August 21 will be one more opportunity for us to take in the just-out-of-reach spectacle of space. Few people will be more equipped to understand its implications than writer and producer Ann Druyan.

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Ann Druyan
2017
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The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature

Did you know that spending time in a forest activates the vagus nerve, which is responsible for inducing calm and regeneration? Or that spending just one single day in a wooded area increases the number of natural killer cells in the blood by almost 40 percent on average? We’ve all had an...

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Clemens G. Arvay
2018
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Our Spiritual Connection to Nature

The realities explored in science and spirituality are often assumed to be unrelated to one another. Both find their basis in a spirit of inquiry. Modern science is objective analysis, while spirituality is subjective understanding.

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Sri Ravi Shankar
2010
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Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Fate of Life on Earth—a Mahb Dialogue with Science Philosopher and Systems Theorist Ervin Laszlo

All of us, all of the web of life on Earth, must come together to form the symphony of oneness. That is the purpose of our existence. It is our contribution to the world.

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Geoffrey Holland
2020
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer
2015
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Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality

What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality.

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Ervin Laszlo
2006
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Connection with Nature