Tag: Anthropocene

• Is the Anthropocene so new? Sophocles on Human Dis-Integration from Nature (Antigone, 332-375)

  

  A translation of a song from Sophocles’ Antigone, with commentary on the Anthropocene.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  17 March 2025

  History, Poetry, Reintegrating with Nature

  Ancient Greeks, Anthropocene, environment, History, Nature, Poetry, Sophocles

• 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.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  11 November 2022

  Memories, Nature, Visual Art

  Anthropocene, Blooming, Crabapple, Flowers, Nature, Photo, Spring, Trees

• Saguaro Poems: For the Saguaros (with audio)

  

  What good we could do for the saguaros, for the planet, may we only do it *now*.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  10 November 2022

  Nature, Poetry

  Anthropocene, climate, Climate Grief, Nature, Poetry, saguaros, Writing

• 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…

  Lucca Daniel Green

  20 July 2022

  Hermes, Nature, Reintegrating with Nature

  ancient Greece, Anthropocene, Civilization, Hermes, Nature