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The biophilia hypothesis suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life. Edward O. Wilson introduced and popularized the hypothesis in his book, Biophilia (1984). He defines biophilia as \u201cthe urge to affiliate with other forms of life\u201d. The term \u201cbiophilia\u201d means \u201clove of life or living systems.<\/em>
\n\u2013\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

Why is the world so beautiful? An Indigenous botanist on the spirit of life in everything<\/strong><\/a>
\nCBC Radio \u00b7 Posted: Nov 27, 2020 \u201c\u2018Western science is a powerful way of knowing, but it isn\u2019t the only one says Robin Wall Kimmerer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rewilding A Forest | Maria “Vildhj\u00e4rta” Westerberg<\/strong><\/a>
\nYoutube Video, Campfire Stories, Feb 24, 2024 “This film is part of a series called “Something Beautiful for the World\u201d, which is a collaboration between Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films…Maria was a romantic, animal-loving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards “a normal life”. As a young adult she became depressed, and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest. The myriad of funny-looking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she’s a celebrated “twig poet” whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden. When a climate related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she’s forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place that once upon a time saved her.” Filmed in: V\u00e4rmland, Sweden<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIn The Quiet and The Dark\u201d<\/a><\/strong> is a\u00a0Sea to Sea<\/strong> Production commissioned by CBC, 44 min.\u00a0 Featured on CBC Television Oct 7, 2023 and available on \u00a0CBC Gem.\u00a0 The film as a whole explores the tensions within individuals and in the ecological\/environmental community surrounding the injection of hemlock trees with strong pesticides to prevent HWA infestation. It does so by following forest ecologist Donna Crossland in her quest to save a few vestiges of intact hemlock forest in NS by injecting every tree in selected stands with pesticides. More about it on this website<\/a><\/p>\n

Portland filmmaker\u2019s documentary, \u2018Trees and Other Entanglements,\u2019 coming to HBO and Tomorrow<\/a> Theater
\nBy Kristi Turnquist | The Oregonian\/OregonLive, Dec 4, 2023<\/p>\n

We story the land<\/strong><\/a>
\nDocumentary Video by Martha Stiegman and Sherry Pictou\/Rippling Current media (viewed originally on Nova Scotia Advocate 2018\/10\/27) \u201cThe documentary follows seven paddlers from L\u2019s\u0268tkuk (Bear River First Nation) as they travel inland following almost forgotten traditional Mi\u2019kmaq canoe routes.\u201d 26 min. Rippling Current Media 2016. \u201cThe Bear River reserve boundary cuts the people of L\u2019sitkuk off from their ancestors\u2019 hunting and fishing grounds. But there are old canoe routes that leave from the reserve, and cross the territory; and people here are working to reclaim them. WE STORY THE LAND follows seven paddlers as they travel through the land, to reconnect with a part of their history and a part of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The origin of the term \u201cTree hugger\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Facebook post by Ali H Kadhem<\/a>\u00a0on Feb 18, 2022<\/p><\/div>\n

Diana Beresford-Kroeger bridges gap between science and spirituality<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Josiah Neufeld in BroadView . Nov 13, 2019 \u201cThe tree expert is working to protect the world\u2019s vanishing forests\u2026Orphaned at 12, Beresford-Kroeger grew up in rural Ireland, raised by her mother\u2019s family to know the spirituality, language and law practised by the Celts since before English occupation. She learned to manage her emotions using a form of meditation, and to recognize the sacred and medicinal properties of plants and trees. But her scientific mind wasn\u2019t content with esoteric explanations. She wanted to know how things worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Trees Have Standing<\/strong><\/a>
\nLinda Pannozzo on her blog, The Quaking Swamp Journal Feb 25. 2022. \u201cMore than forty years ago, law professor Christopher Stone advanced the view that natural objects and areas should have legal rights. \u201cShould Trees Have Standing\u201d Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects,\u201d became arguably one of the most provocative pieces of environmental law ever written\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Acadian Forest Love Affair<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u201cThe physical intimacy of yellow birch and hemlock often observed in old Acadian forest is more than a coincidence\u201d Photo-essay by DGP posted on sandylakebedford.ca, Jan 25, 2018 Also available as a PDF on\u00a0archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Abrahams Lake Thoughts By A Stream<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Video)
\nby Mark Brennan Jan 31, 2012. \u201cA poem about self realisation, written in the Nova Scotia Wilderness with the sounds and sights of the surrounding area\u201d<\/p>\n

Nature recording-The Acadian Forest, Wild Earth Voices<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Video)
\nby Mark Brennan Jan 8, 2013 \u201cA short film on the soundscape release, Peskowesk, by Wild Earth Voices which takes you on a journey, in the Early Spring, through the sounds of the Acadian Forest of Nova Scotia.\u201d Also see (listen to) Mark\u2019s\u00a0Wild Earth Voices soundscapes<\/a>\u00a0which include four albums in forest wilderness settings in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

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Spring forest<\/p><\/div>\n

Treasures Of The Old Forest<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Video)
\nProduced in 2005 Avalon & Meguma Natural History Films. \u201cPrecious as jewels, fleeting as snow-flakes, yet ancient as the forest itself, these are the wildflowers of the Acadian forest. The trillium, the spring beauty, the bloodroot and lady slipper, once as abundant as the songbirds \u2013 now driven to the far recesses of their range. A priceless inheritance many Maritimers may never see, truly, the Treasures of the Old Forest\u201d.<\/p>\n

Wild At Heart, Landscape Painter Greg Dickie<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Video)
\nby Mark Brennan Sep 30, 2012 \u201cMark Brennan travels with Artist Greg Dickie of Windsor, Nova Scotia into the Tobeatic Wilderness Area of Nova Scotia in the fall of 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n

Embracing diverse worldviews to share planet Earth<\/strong><\/a>
\nF. Kohler et al., 2019. Essay in Conservation Biology 28 February 2019<\/p>\n

The Bancroft Wood<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe thought of not being able to hear the ethereal flute-like\u00a0song of a solitary hermit thrush<\/a>\u00a0at day\u2019s end is most upsetting to me.\u201d \u2013 VR in Yarmouth in the Chronicle Herald July 25, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

YouTube Video by Cliff Seruntine posted May 5, 2019. \u201cBob Bancroft is a retired biologist who is widely known for his tireless work as an environmental advocate. What few people know about Bob, though, is that for the last forty-four years, he has been quietly working to restore the land around his home into a vibrant, self-sustaining forest. Facing challenges ranging from restoration of ruined soil to preparing the forest to adapt to impending climate changes, Bob\u2019s lifetime labor of love is now a transitional forest that closely approximates a local, natural ecosystem, and as the forest matures, it is becoming a refuge for wildlife.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia\u2019s Church Forests<\/strong>
\nSaving Ethiopia\u2019s \u201cChurch Forests<\/strong><\/a>
\nby T. DeLene Beeland on Berfois<\/p>\n

Ethiopia\u2019s \u2018church forests\u2019 are incredible oases of green<\/strong><\/a>
\nNational Geographic Jan 18, 2019 BY ALEJANDRA BORUNDA PHOTOGRAPHS BY KIERAN DODD \u201cWhen Alemayehu Wassie Eshete was a boy, he went to church each Sunday. He would make his way along the dry, dusty roads between the wheat fields in his home province in northern Ethiopia. At the end of the trip was the prize: a literal step into another world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment<\/strong><\/a>
\nBook by Christopher D. Stone 1972 & 2010. From Amazon: Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on the courts, the academy, and society as a whole. At the heart of the book is an eminently sensible, legally sound, and compelling argument that the environment should be granted legal rights. For the new edition, Stone explores a variety of recent cases and current events\u2013and related topics such as climate change and protecting the oceans \u2013 providing a thoughtful survey of the past and an insightful glimpse at the future of the environmental movement. This enduring work continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights, so that the voiceless elements in nature are protected for future generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding the Mother Tree\u201d \u2013 can it change the way we manage our forests in Nova Scotia? 9May2021?<\/a><\/strong>
\nPost on NSFN May 9, 2011 \u201cA remarkable story was published this past week:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Finding The Mother Tree: Discovering The Wisdom Of The Forest\u00a0by Suzanne Simard, 368 pages, Published:May 4, 2021, by\u00a0Penguin Random House<\/a>. Listed at $Can $34.95<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s remarkable in many respects: as a scientific story that is effecting\u00a0 a \u201cparadigm change\u201d in how we think about forest\u00a0 ecosystems; as a very personal story that intersects with the\u00a0author\u2019s own health challenges<\/a>; as a story that revealed\/confirmed indigenous perspectives on forest communities; and very much more\u2026<\/p>\n

A day in the #Vanlife in Nova Scotia \u2013 Forest Cooking and Forest Bathing<\/strong><\/a>
\nDELORIS MACNEILL on YouTube Apr 21, 2020. \u201cIt\u2019s been a heavy couple of days in NS. Sharing these magical moments in the forest with you as a small bit of offering during these hard times. I hope it inspires you to take in some nature and peace. Felt called to share, while at the same time enjoying the expansion these practices give me in being more connected, in expressive ways.<\/p>\n

The Serviceberry An Economy of Abundance<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Robin Wall Kimmerer in Emergence Magazine \u201cAs Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?\u201d<\/p>\n

How being still in nature can remind us of what it means to be human<\/strong><\/a>
\nShalan Joudry \u00b7 for CBC News Audio Essay<\/p>\n

Earth Adventures<\/strong><\/a>
\nA Favourite:\u00a0Woodens River Adventure<\/a>
\n\u2026You have reached the top of the river. You must release the potion at the bridge if it is to work. But Dreeg has a troll guard living under the bridge. Put it to sleep:
\nSneak across the bridge to the far side.
\nFind the enormous tree nearby on the other side. Touch the tree with the potion bottle to add some of its wisdom to the potion. It is one of the oldest Tamarack trees in the Province.
\nNow turn to the bridge and sprinkle some potion on the bridge.
\nWave your wand as you repeat.
\n\u2026The tree you touched is a very old tamarack tree (also called a larch or hackmatack), and is likely several hundred years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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