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... understand the stakes involved in this conflation as well as Wendell Berry, and few have had more occasion to enact the entwined values of pacifism and environmentalism than he has. Berry therefore marries pacifist politics to a land ethic of care, a union from which emerges an environmentalism highly...

... a human follows proper ceremonial protocols and is certain to never squander or hoard the beings that have offered themselves as gifts to humans. 7 I have written elsewhere about witnessing how berries, bears, and medicine observe and listen to human behavior and respond to it by acting with generosity...

... (for a very long time, I might add) with the Age of Man as the “obvious” choice? 49 Indeed, why not choose a name whose higher calling we must rise to meet? We might, for example, opt for ecotheologian Thomas Berry's proposed “Ecozoic,” which embraces Earth's integral living community, and invites...

... County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949). 11 Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (Berkeley, Cal: Shambala, 1975); Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story...

... religious institutions or, for that matter, the statistically very small groups that revitalize non-Christian cosmologies such as Asatrú. Interestingly, this differs from the North American tradition in which “nature spirituality,” generally, to quote Evan Berry, has had a more “easy harmony among...

..., that of the poisonous plant. Deadly nightshade, Hemlock, Poison Ivy, Tree of Heaven, White Cedar berries and Oleander were principal among the poisonous plants that I can at some stage recall being warned away from—Stinging Nettles represent an interesting crossover between the two. The way we perceive poisonous plants...

..., moss, and lichen mix with rocky outcrops, rivers big and small, and lakes, also big and small. There are wolverines and moose and ptarmigan and ducks and summer clouds of mosquitoes. It is reindeer herding territory too. And for Sámi people it is also a place to go berry picking, rush cutting...

... . . . . practice resurrection. —Wendell Berry 1 “I dream of mycorrhiza” Sally said. A curious answer to a common query in my ongoing research with alternative farmers cultivating lives and livelihoods at the edges of capitalism and a changing climate. “What’s your dream for this farm?” often reveals...

... Productions, 1998, videocassette. 56. Marty, Black Grizzly , 45 . 57. Marty, Black Grizzly , 1 . 58. Marty, Black Grizzly , 7 . Marty is referring here to Sticky Mouth’s simple need to eat—carrion, saskatoons and buffalo berries, seeds, roots and shoots, and the steak and lobster...

...-long sharp-toothed leaves; growing berries the size of apples that serve them as swim bladders; like heads they raised them.” 32 As people try to rid the ships of plants, they become increasingly more fatigued by the plant-induced effects, like “opium smokers.” 33 Losing control in the face...

... Berry’s Creek. 1 As we pass Newark I think of the rest of Hull’s poem, “Hospice,” which recounts the life and illness of the speaker’s sister in their home state, New Jersey: “the body, twisting / in a tissue of smoke and dust over Jersey’s / infernal glory of cocktail lounges and chemical plants...

... camp of the virtuous. By contrast, the sin of gluttony is recast in the unenlightened “industrial eater” who, in consuming mindlessly, fails to acknowledge that “eating is an agricultural act,” as farmer and agrarian intellectual Wendell Berry declared over three decades ago. 23 Melanie Dupuis...

... . Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger . Kempton, IL : Floris Books , 2014 . Berry Wendell . Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food . Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press , 2009 . Besant Annie W. , and Leadbeater C. W. Occult Chemistry . 3rd ed...

... it or not. On the most basic level, plants and animals are genetically interwoven, communicating through the genetic language of coevolution. Plants are more than objective presences for human beings; they are the habitat we have adapted to. Humans evolved color vision to scrutinize the ripeness of fruit and berries...

...-by-farm-field. Indeed, one could go further and follow Kimberly K. Smith in arguing that up until the mid-20 th century work of Wendell Berry, agrarians weren't even all that green. 88 One could also ask, what about other humans? Were the pioneers also fighting sexism? 89 What place would...

..., oxidises tannins and anthocyanins, phenolic compounds found in grape skins that have anti-fungal properties. This helps botrytis hyphae to survive, breach grape skins, and reach the juice inside the berry's flesh. These hyphae excrete laccase into the grape tissue around them during infection, so...

... of the plant. 19 I thought about the practice of traditional harvesters, who often leave offerings of sweetgrass or tobacco in places where they gather berries and medicines. I haven’t always considered bitumen as a gift or a source of creative possibility. Like most people who know about the tar sands...

.... Practices that had sustained communities in the area for centuries, vital both for subsistence and as part of local food cultures and traditions, practices such as gathering wild eggs, harvesting berries, hunting birds, fishing: these had suddenly become toxic, hostile to life, unsustainable. Skills...

... by the Iranian Revolution. 18. Dina Gilio-Whitaker examines this Indigenous industrial dilemma in a chapter entitled “The Complicated Legacy of Western Expansion and the Industrial Revolution,” in As Long as Grass Grows , 53–72 . 19. Raines, “American Indians Struggling.” 20. Berry...

... . Benidickson Jamie . The Culture of Flushing: A Cultural and Legal History of Sewage . Vancouver : UBC Press , 2007 . Berry Wendell . Foreword to Van der Ryn, Toilet Papers , 9 – 10 . Biss Eula . On Immunity: An Inoculation . Minneapolis : Graywolf , 2014 . Black Maggie...