Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
Emergence Magazine Podcast
00:00
The Origins of the Salmon
The migratory ways of the salmon were likely born in response to the swelling and subsiding ice ages that dominated their range. As those inland waters were subsumed beneath the immense spreading ice sheets, the fish were driven out into the ocean and forced to adapt. Yet somehow they never lost their ancestral tie to those fresh mountain streams. The association between salmon and woodlands was an ancient reciprocity renewed time and again as the ice retreated.
Transcript
Play full episode
