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Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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What Would You Tell Readers of Your Book?

A lot of the readers of the book seem to have been awakened not only to trees but to the urgency of the ecological crisis and are inspired to take action in some way. I'll say first that it's absolutely the most gratifying response that I can imagine getting to this book or any book when a reader writes or says to me in person that they are looking at the living world around them in a different way. There's no better response to the book. When a reader says I've been living on this street for 25 years and passing this tree for a quarter of a century and only after reading your book have I been electrified to stop and be present to and discover what that thing

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