Category: Nature
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My Favorite Crabapple, My Oldest Friend
A few photos of the spectacle put on in April 2021 by my favorite tree in the world/my oldest friend.
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Saguaro Poems: For the Saguaros (with audio)
What good we could do for the saguaros, for the planet, may we only do it *now*.
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Saguaro Poems: ‘That cactus is so sturdy!’ (with audio)
The first of a series of Saguaro Poems (or 2, at least, for now), this one on the vulnerability revealed by the condition of being armed.
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Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio) [updated]
![Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio) [updated]](https://luccadanielgreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pexels-photo-1276314.jpeg?w=1024)
A poet’s prayer to Gaia, the Great Mother, from my collection Poems for the Anthropocene.
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan
Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
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Reintegrating with Nature: Food-Foraging Edition (via WaPo Magazine)
Next in my series Reintegrating with Nature, an article about foraging in The Washington Post Magazine last weekend led me to thinking about how I’ll implement foraging into my life (post-graduation!), and the food-rich plot of land I’d like to call home at some point, not a small farm anymore, but a food forest instead.
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Reintegrating with Nature: Relocating ‘Wilderness’ within the Self
Toward re-establishing our stewardship within the natural world rather than beyond it.
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This nervy tree just tried to brain me!
A Black Walnut tree tries to bludgeon me *to death*(!), though I thwarted the dastardly deed at the last moment. Gripping suspense! Also, Horace’s run-in with a tree.
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Reintegrating with Nature: Humans, Nature, and Hermes in Archaic and Classical Greece
If you’ve ever encountered a predatory animal while hiking, you’ve felt the need for Hermes’ powers. Hermes it was who first laid the paths to get around by land and who kept them safe for human-use following Herakles’ heroic efforts against the beasts of the past like the Nemean Lion and the Hydra. If you’ve…
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