Rootedness is a way of being in concert with the wilderness -- and wildness -- that sustains humans and all of life. The rooted pathways offered here are not meant as a definitive list but as waymarkers and fortifications for all of us seeking our unique, bewildering, awkward way through the essential question of how to live on our broken, imperiled, beloved earth. It is the question Thoreau asked. The one that Mary Oliver, who passed just before I wrote these words, has perhaps framed most beautifully: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
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How thoughtful...and yes, they both asked that question. I haven't got an answer yet. Still listening.
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