Sonia Shah: Stewardship, Flux, and Migration
"I do think it's very important to be connected to your place, even if those places change, you have to be a student of that place. So this is what we've tried to teach our kids, is that wherever you end up, that you become a steward of that place, you become a student of that place, and you look a…
Bill McKibben: Bringing us to Attention
"Sometimes [kindness] means waking people up, and that's what movements do...when we build movements, one of the reasons we do it is to bring people back to attention."
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Bill McKibben needs no introduction. He's the author of The End of Nature, which was the first layperson's book about clima…
Kathleen Dean Moore: Bird-Graced World
"The ability to imagine what it's like to be inside another person's mind or another person's life is the beginning of compassion...and it seems to me too that moral imagination is a necessary condition for hope. When you set out to think of something new, then you have a reason to think it might b…
Interlude: It's all about Connection
I had some scheduling issues with folks, so I took this opportunity to do a short episode that attempts to begin to tease out some of the overlaps and intersections of my guests so far, and where those might lead.
Coming next week will be a great interview with David Abram, followed by (in some o…
David Abram: A Shadowed, Exquisite, Holy World
"It's about being a part of, and participant in, a world that is shot through with loss, predation, grief, and yet it's all that shadowed difficulty that also makes this world so exquisitely beautiful, so holy."
Cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist David Abram is the author o…
Lhadon Tethong & Tendor Dorjee: Connection, Contentment, & Independence
"One of the words for which I haven't been able to find an English equivalent is the word 'nyingjey'...you'll hear Tibetans say this word very often, if you have a friend who is a little bit down, or there is a suffering animal nearby or a wounded bird or a wounded deer on the road… nyingjey, nying…
Craig Santos Perez: Caring for the Earth and Each Other
"To me, that is the power of poetry, where we can take these fragments of our lives, of our psyches, and of our emotions, and to really conjure something new—not necessarily something whole and complete, but something that's beautiful and something that's empowering and inspiring from these ruins o…
Lise Van Susteren: Turning What We Know into What We Do
"The issues that we attempt to suppress and sweep under the rug--or repress, which means we sweep under the rug unconsciously—they don't go anywhere, they just go in the darker crevices of our mind and then, like poisoning in groundwater, they seep into us, unconsciously, and we feel stressed and a…
The World Is Singing: Hank Lentfer's Life in Sound
What does it mean to truly listen: not just hear, but attend to the world with exquisite care? In this episode of Constant Wonder, host Marcus Smith sits down with Hank Lentfer, a sound recordist and acoustic ecologist who has spent decades capturing the natural world's most breathtaking voices fro…
Alaskan Soundscape, Wolves, Whales, Water and The Raven’s Witness: A conversation with Hank Lentfer | Episode 10
In this episode of Carrying the Fire, host Hal Herring sits down with writer, sound recordist, and naturalist Hank Lentfer of Gustavus, Alaska, to explore the transformative power of listening to the natural world.
An award-winning filmmaker and sound artist, Hank is the author of Raven’s Witness,…
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