Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Writing Like There's No Tomorrow - Front Porch Republic 2026-07-04T08:29:38+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/07/writing-like-theres-no-tomorrow/ robertogreco kenhada writing howwewrite literature poetry 2026 aldoleopold thoreau wendellberry garysnyder rachelcarson barrylopez anniedillard terrytempestwilliams wildness nature ecosystems robinsonjeffers planet environment poems williamstaffod consumerism maryoliver mscottmomaday experience livedexperience humanness wilderness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecedf29a2f91/ Noticing by Richard Louv | Hachette Book Group 2026-06-27T05:38:59+00:00 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-louv/noticing/9781643753034/ robertogreco richardlouv nature senses sensing multispecies morethanhuman 2026 spirituality wildlife wilderness neuroscience photography indigeneity indigenous bioenchantment enchantment animism mindfulness human humanism humans science art noticing seeing sensory attention ecology ecoanxiety environment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:606f3bcfdb23/ Tending to Paradise 2026-04-26T08:26:15+00:00 https://www.biographic.com/tending-to-paradise/ robertogreco washingtonstate emmamarris 2026 ecosystems nature morethanhuman sanjuanislands conservation biodiversity coastsalish landscape wilderness indigeneity indigenous human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships yellowisland americorps us https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e7bf6837c2f/ The Landscapes Inside Us | Robert Macfarlane | The New York Review of Books 2026-04-11T05:39:08+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/wayfinding-landscapes-inside-us/ robertogrecoNone of us is exempt from the ramifications of the device paradigm. We all seem to find it extraordinarily difficult to step outside the onslaught, to create the distance and perspective between us and our devices that might allow us to question what cultural or cognitive price is being paid in return for convenience. In July 1841 the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest, on the outskirts of London, and set out to walk to his home in Northborough, about eighty miles away. At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell. He had been in High Beach for four years. Although his wife, Patty, was alive, he believed himself to be searching for an imaginary second wife, a version of his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, who had died three years earlier. He suffered auditory hallucinations on the road. He ate grass for sustenance, finding it to “taste something like bread.” Footsore and confused, he continued on until he reached Northborough. The walk took him four days. In “Journey Out of Essex”—a minor epic of English travel writing—Clare described how he slept by the edge of the road each night, taking care to lie with his head pointing north, so that he would know which way to walk when he woke. That image has stayed with me since I first read Clare’s account twenty years or so ago: a man lost in mind, nevertheless seized by a homing instinct, and with his body a quivering compass needle that settled on north each night. Five months after reaching Northborough, Clare was certified insane on the grounds of being “addicted to poetical prosings.” He was committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1864. His last words were “I want to go home.” Mental illness can result in a loss of bearings so drastic that one’s footing in the given world slips and the moorings of the mind loosen. Yet within such bewilderment lucidities persist. Clare could remember his route home, though he did not recognize his wife when he met her on the outskirts of Northborough. My grandfather, lost in the mists of dementia in the final years of his life, found it hard to recall what he had had for breakfast but could reliably give the names, heights, and ranges of mountains he had climbed in his youth, and walk in memory back up Himalayan valleys he had not entered for half a century. In the opening pages of From Here to There Bond describes how his grandmother, who also suffered from dementia, in the final weeks of her life “repeatedly used the phrase ‘Am I here?’” His book is both scientific and personal. Much of it is spent patiently explaining the neuroscience of wayfinding and spatial awareness for laypeople, with the calm tone of a seasoned science writer. But gradually, between and within the explanatory sections, Bond quietly and movingly discloses what I take to be his real preoccupation, which is Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. His book is an attempt to answer his grandmother’s question, which is also everyone’s question. Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus. Once this begins, Bond writes, “patients have trouble creating cognitive maps of new places and recalling maps of familiar ones.” The disease’s ability to disrupt the brain’s navigation and orientation system is so acute that researchers are exploring whether spatial tests might be used to diagnose it earlier than any other forms of assessment. “The tragedy for Alzheimer’s patients,” as Bond puts it, “is that the compass they have always had is now fading, and their map is shrinking. Disorientation becomes their default state, leaving them lost in places they have always known.” This contributes to the distress—variously expressed as frustration, anxiety, anger, and violence—that sufferers feel: “They are incapable of finding their way anywhere and can be lost even in their own homes.” Covid-19 has administered a global “nature shock,” leaving billions of us disoriented even in familiar surroundings. During full lockdown, we wandered our homes like the narrator in Xavier de Maistre’s mock-epic Voyage Around My Room (1794), who for forty-two days finds himself confined to his chamber, where he would “traverse the room up and down and across, without rule or plan.” Meanwhile, many countries—including China—have used the pandemic to ramp up their means of tracking and tracing citizens, making it even harder to get lost should one ever wish to. Invoking feichang shiqi, “extraordinary times,” the Chinese Communist Party is now using facial recognition technologies, “health coding,” and smartphone tracking to increase surveillance of its citizens: state security camera networks can segment facial-recognition data into dozens of sensitive subcategories, including eyebrow size, skin color, and ethnicity. In Nature Shock, Coleman writes:
Thoreau urged his audience…to reconsider the settled spaces they inhabited…. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Thoreau loved paradox, sometimes too much. It helps him find his mark here, though: one might expect our current lostness to test our self-reliance and glorify the individual, but in fact it proves our entanglement and reveals our codependence. When lost, we most of all need help. Underlying all three of these books is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans and their environments, as well as between humans and other humans. Having read them, I’ve come to think that we might best imagine wayfinding not as a skill or art but as an ethic. The abilities that are cultivated in wayfinding—imagining things from different viewpoints, moving the mind backward and forward in time, seeing situations from other perspectives, weighing alternatives subtly against one another before making the best decisions, seeking information from others and giving it freely in return—might be the same abilities that contribute to a resilient, equitable community or polity. If this is wayfinding, then we need it now more than ever."]]> robettmacfarlane 2021 mro'connor wayfinding humanism senses sensing navigation joncoleman michaelbond multispecies morethanhuman science brain indigeneity indigenous art place storytelling agnèsvarda animals arctic greenland land-basededucation place-basededucation autonoeisis jonathandostrovsky gps janejacobs australia pacificislands micronesia nature colonialism knowledge colonization decolonization civilization gettinglost india china southamerica captialism timingold siannengai hippocampus eleanormaguire theknowledge london taxis life living johnclare thoreau covid-19 coronavirus pandemic collaboration cooperation environment information humans human lostness xavierdemaistre veroniquebohbot cartography wilderness johno'keefe place-basedlearning land-basedlearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4419b518594/ The Springing Time – Melanie Challenger 2026-03-01T21:09:34+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-springing-time/ robertogreco 2026 melaniechallenger seasons time bodies ecology slow small morethanhuman multispecies ulfbüntgen nature outside outdoors indoors inside dst knowledge patwillmer life living spring purpose howwelive organisms biology science human humans survival sensitivity flexibility change attention adjustment pollution libertarianism neolibertarianism ideology phenology children wilderness disinformation arctic inuit indigeneity indigenous biorhythms puberty hormones patterns cycles plants pollinators climate climatechange springtime insects environment sun ethics utility function metabolism flourishing cuklture cultures anthropocene economics economicgrowth growth nihilism optimism mortality interdependence parenting joy grief reality daylightsavingtime https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3034ccd91b17/ Alexis Madrigal: "To Know A Place" - Social Science Matrix 2025-12-28T20:58:00+00:00 https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/alexis-madrigal/ robertogreco alexismadrigal place urban urbanism bayarea 2025 technology culture socialscience cities landscape perspective memory narrative storytelling time watershed placemaking bighere longnnow bignow longhere biomes ecology temporality technophily online internet web bioredionalism garysnyder indigeneity indigenous life living flora fauna reallifemag meatspace nathanjorgenson bodies helenharrison newtonharrison saraamariwalker oakland eastbay peterberg planetdrum berkeley claremontcreek politics institutions robinwallkimmerer siliconvalley sanfrancisco waterfront south norcal mountdiablo mounttamalpais ecofeminism liberation robinsloan treasureisland spirituality strawberrycreek midlredhoward running physical adamwebb astrobiology margaretgordon eastpaloalto richmond marincity race racism russellcity bayview hunterspoint westoakland biology bart capitalism lakemerritt rondellums air water pacificcircuit claireleister sanjose solidarity geology history hydrology baybridge humanism human humans land california wilderne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6915ef93c3/ Listening and the Crisis of Inattention – with David G. Haskell 2025-04-28T05:05:38+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/listening-and-the-crisis-of-inattention/ robertogreco 2022 davidhaskell emmanuelvaughan-lee sound sounds listenting nature attention inattenion experience deeptime wilderness kindship sensory multisensory listening senses audio https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:661ef9101241/ America’s Pernicious Rural Myth: An Interview with Steven Conn - Public Books 2025-04-16T01:07:54+00:00 https://www.publicbooks.org/americas-pernicious-rural-myth-an-interview-with-steven-conn/ robertogrecojacobbruggeman stevenconn rural us history policy politics economics agriculture economy farming urban urbanism suburbanization urbanization development thomasjefferson law legal cosmopolitanism myth myths crisis farmers nativeamericans indigeneity indigenous quaker quakers wilderness religion displacement disposession military williampenn globalization capitalism church churches ohio oklahoma jdvance timwalz populism maga masculinity toxicmasculinity schools education healthcare newurbanism willienelson farmaid farms ruralism cities industrialization globalizaton 2025 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4d89a6431fb2/ What, Then, Is Natural? | Los Angeles Review of Books 2024-09-19T22:01:30+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/ robertogreco obikaufmann 2024 fire california megafire fires wilderness nature wildfires forests https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3201b9e7f3c9/ 'Bogancloch' Director Ben Rivers Interview and First Trailer 2024-08-15T05:16:00+00:00 https://variety.com/2024/film/global/bogancloch-trailer-ben-rivers-locarno-1236093772/ robertogreco benrivers film filmmaking wilderness jakewilliams 2024 offthegrid hermits recluses scotland forests highlands documentary bogancloch via:subtopes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:efad2a9c5508/ In the wild - The Philosopher's Zone - ABC Radio National 2020-12-19T09:38:03+00:00 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/in-the-wild/12993300 robertogreco tesslea wendysteele nature wildness wildlife 2020 policy urban urbanism davidrutledge indigenous indigeneity cities human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships human-naturerelations human-naturerelationships wild climatechange interdependence fires australia plants animals multispecies morethanhuman wildcities settlercolonialism aborigines environment anthropocene decolonization colonialism us water billmckibben ecocide genocide wilderness rural urbanization sustainability ecosystems ecology systems systemsthinking infrastructure shipping satellites extractivism fossilfuels housing climaterefugees ethics entanglement newliteracies globalwarming academia academics power zoominginandout scale responsibility coalition land landreform property tenure politics now future aborigine aboriginal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b8bb21fdc09/ Agafia. Hermit Surviving in Russian Wilderness for 70 years - YouTube 2019-06-12T06:07:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK3DJ7Kn6s robertogrecoagafialykova video russia taiga oldbelievers lykovs civilization wilderness towatch documentary via:soulellis siberia 1978 1936 sovietunion religion isolation survival history families technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a4120f7afc3f/ Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length) - YouTube 2019-06-12T06:04:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68 robertogreco agafialykova video russia taiga oldbelievers lykovs civilization wilderness siberia 1978 1936 sovietunion religion isolation survival history families technology towatch https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:32cb7dedc8ef/ Agafia Lykova - Wikipedia 2019-06-12T06:03:28+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova robertogrecoagafialykova russia video taiga oldbelievers lykovs civilization wilderness siberia 1978 1936 sovietunion religion isolation survival history families technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0da613f4a107/ Foundation For Deep Ecology 2016-12-31T06:19:53+00:00 http://www.deepecology.org/index.htm robertogreco ecology wilderness wildlife deepecology extinction douglastompkins nature technology population overpopulation economics via:ethanbodnar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a61ed1a92b8/ In Praise of Walks and Wilderness | Alpine Modern Editorial 2016-06-30T19:12:34+00:00 http://www.alpinemodern.com/editorial/in-praise-of-walks-and-wilderness/ robertogreco nature walking wilderness body fragility power control memory luddism decisionmaking risk freedom technology attention brianteare thinking 2016 hiking robertmacfarlane essence feeling feelings vulnerability gerardmanleyhopkins nonplaces urban urbanism escape richardsennett mind spirit life living mindbodyspirit haleylittleton andygoldsworthy place rebeccasolnit wendellberry walterbenjamin outdoors edwardabbey ecology environment bodies luddites non-places https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:146749aefb49/ On the Wildness of Children — Carol Black 2016-05-08T03:22:11+00:00 http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/ robertogrecoIf children learn to normalize dominance and non-consent within the context of education, then non-consent becomes a normalized part of the ‘tool kit’ of those who have and wield power… This is unthinkable within Nishnaabeg intelligence. Interestingly, the most brilliant artists and scientists in Euro-western societies tell us exactly the same thing: that it is precisely this state of open attention, curiosity, freedom, collaboration, consent, that is necessary for all true learning, discovery, creation." … "We no longer frame people as either “civilized”or “savage,” but as “educated” or “uneducated,” “developed” or “developing” (our modern terms for the same thing). But we retain the paternalistic attitudes of our forebears, toward our children and toward the “childlike” adults we find all over the world — a paternalism in which the veneer of benevolence is underpinned by the constant threat of violent force. Control is always so seductive, at least to the "developed" ("civilized") mind. It seems so satisfying, so efficient, so effective, so potent. In the short run, in some ways, it is. But it creates a thousand kinds of blowback, from depressed rebellious children to storms surging over our coastlines to guns and bombs exploding in cities around the world."]]> education unschooling children childhood carolblack attention culture society learning wildness wild wilderness thoreau ellwoodcubberley williamtorreyharris schooling schools johntaylorgatto outdoors natureanxiety depression psychology wellness adhd mindfulness suzannegaskins openattention miniaodlafreeman paulejeune wilfredpeltier leannebetasamosakesimpson consent animals zoos nature johannhari brucealexander mammals indigenous johnholt petergray work play howwelearn tobyrollo chastisement civilization control kosmos colonization colonialism land-basededucation land-basedlearning place-basedlearning place-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69f840250e75/ Animal Internet | New Vessel Press 2015-12-23T05:42:02+00:00 http://newvesselpress.com/books/animal-internet/ robertogreco nature animals multispecies internet animalinternet alexanderpschera books digital wilderness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6bee63513f88/ Into the Okavango 2015 2015-07-04T01:07:52+00:00 http://intotheokavango.org/ robertogreco okavango africa maps dataviz data angola via:vruba wilderness mapping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:16712ec4d580/ Augmented Ecology 2015-03-23T19:03:46+00:00 http://augmentedecology.com/ robertogreco tumblrs augmentedecology ecology multispecies conservation technology anthropocene mapping maps visualization landscapes nature wildlife droneecology drones sensors ioo internetoforganisms sensing tagging wilderness landscape https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cbd5e4fb2988/ Anthropology is so important, all children should learn it - The Ecologist 2015-03-21T11:25:35+00:00 http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2778425/anthropology_is_so_important_all_children_should_learn_it.html robertogreco anthropology education gregorybateson claudelevi-strauss 2015 marcbrightman children learning curriculum via:anne k12 tcsnmy lcproject openstudioproject howwelearn culture religion ethnicity sustainability diversity environment identity henriettamoore anthropologists davidgraeber parthadasgupta jeromelewis ecology anthropocene howweteach global cv wilderness claudelévi-strauss https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d49b1c13906e/ Campo Santo - Firewatch 2015-03-08T18:33:05+00:00 http://www.firewatchgame.com/ robertogreco games gaming wilderness videogames outdoors wyoming camposanto edg radio toplay https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fd08eb038f9d/ "The Riddle of the Apostle Islands" ORION, MAY/JUNE 2003 2015-03-06T05:59:38+00:00 http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Cronon_Riddle_Apostle_Islands.htm robertogreco nature wilderness 2003 naturalhistory culture wild jamesfeldman rewilding history humans via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4dad1db34338/ Is it time to cut adrift from island thinking? – Libby Robin – Aeon 2014-12-19T15:47:12+00:00 http://aeon.co/magazine/science/no-island-is-an-island-in-a-cosmopolitan-age/ robertogreco libbyrobin via:anne 2014 iceland islands science isolation cosmopolitanism judithschalansky picoiyer surtseyisland peterveth charlesdarwin alfredrusselwallace galápagos alexandervonhumboldt newzealand australia bali lombok ecology biology life robertmacarthur edwardowilson ecosystems discreetness nature wilderness complexity extinction dispersal invasion adaptation competition biogeography geography lordhoweisland yrjöhaila equilibrium conservation adrianmanning jakobvonuexküll flows circulation borders people humans separation anthropocene darwin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e005edaeac1d/ #53 I don't need a car 2014-05-19T19:24:49+00:00 http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2401e4db39bd66a5fbc59aa5f&id=9816c173b8 robertogreco liminality jackcheng 2014 betweenness searching wilderness uncertainty between liminalspaces inbetweenness inbetween liminal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5dff0635b4f/ For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine 2013-01-31T00:29:19+00:00 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html robertogreco culture history russia survival isolation 1978 2013 families religion technology sovietunion freedom taiga wilderness agafialykova oldbelievers lykovas siberia 1936 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e491383084c4/ Białowieża Forest (Idle Words) 2012-02-20T06:20:32+00:00 http://idlewords.com/2012/02/bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_forest.htm robertogreco bisongrass europe history hunting wilderness primevalwilderness microclimates 2010 2012 białowieżaforest forest forests poland maciejceglowski maciejcegłowski https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dd0dd7caa60a/ The Call of the Feral | HiLobrow 2011-09-19T07:22:59+00:00 http://hilobrow.com/2011/09/16/the-call-of-the-feral/ robertogreco matthewbattles feral anarchism anarchy literature jacklondon animals deschooling consciousness zizek anonymity 4chan wariness curiosity callofthewild tovejansson dhlawrence zygmuntbauman jeanstafford refugees liquidtimes thetruedeiver themountainlion thefox progress collapse wilderness wild https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b420a2e67c7e/