Category Archives: Inspirations & Strategies from Nature

An Ancient Lineage Yet Alive in Your Heart

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Larry Glover

There is an ancient tradition yet alive in the lineage of every human on the planet of taking one’s body and mind and soul and going into the mountains or the deep forest or into the desert or to the … Continue reading →

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Coming Home—from Grand Canyon Rafting

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Larry Glover

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love. Between these two my life turns. — Sri Nisargadatta I am freshly returned from 17 days … Continue reading →

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Do the Stars Long to Shine?

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Larry Glover

there is a presence in the beating of your own heart
a primal drum calling you home
like a rain drop returning to the sea. Continue reading →

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Resilience 2011 Conference: Innovation and Sustainability

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Larry Glover

human activity has expanded to such a degree as to now constitute a global, interdependent society that shapes the biosphere at multiple temporal and spatial scales as reflected by climate change, vulnerability in global economic and financial systems and resource degradation across the globe. How can prosperous societal development paths be stimulated in light of these challenges? Continue reading →

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The Worms Are, Therefore I Am

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Larry Glover

To be an Earth Pilgrim is to revere Nature as our sacred home, and see all our life as a sacred journey to become at one with ourselves, with others and with Nature. Continue reading →

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If You Want to Hear a Tree Talk

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Larry Glover

If you want to hear a tree talk
to hear it tell of its story
you have to be willing Continue reading →

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Reinventing Human Identity

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Larry Glover

Turns out elephants are more ‘human’ than we thought; or perhaps we’re more elephant than we thought! Continue reading →

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When Neurobiology and Culture Conflict: Finding Our Way From Here

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Larry Glover

This is a story of identity that can be rewritten in each of our spirits, minds and bodies as we come to experience and know and identify our self—with Life itself, with nature. Inherent within this new-yet-ancient story is a biognosis, the moist intimate wisdom-knowledge of Life, of our place within it. It is a story that each of us must claim for ourselves if we are to know and embody the birthright of our own belonging and the resiliency of nature as our own. Continue reading →

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The Great Forgetting — Who Are We Anyway?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Larry Glover

…in meditative brevity he provocatively invites us to consider and witness what it is to be human, fully and wholly human, absent the wall of separation from Life. He is playing with our identity, with our awareness of what it means to be human. He would have us remember our wholeness, to live into its unanswerable mystery. Continue reading →

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Enhancing Resiliency Through Nature: Part 1

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Larry Glover

Spending time in natural settings is clearly a life-affirming path to strengthening our resilience. Research confirms that as little as 15 or 20 minutes a day can make a significant difference in your life, not only in your sense of vitality but also in your social intelligence. Consider what two, three or more days in a wild setting might do! Continue reading →

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