Leah Penniman on 'Black Earth Wisdom'
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
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The New Animism
It can be very hard to get your head around the idea of a tree as a deity without any direct experience of trees or seeing only a forest and not knowing even the name. So what we found anecdotally on the farm is that people will come and experience the Earth in firsthand terms, bare feet, harvesting in the woods,. contemplating doing labor under the sun, sweating. That relational connection is actually what causes the transformation, not a theory, but a very visceral falling in love. Baba Diyong said, we protect only what we love. And I would add we can only love what we know.
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