Bill Graham's Blog, page 4
February 10, 2020
We Humans Must Include Nature In Our Sense of Self
Those of you who are regular readers of my essays might have sensed a series of themes that regularly underlie my writing: Everything in Nature is interconnected and interdependent. Nature is our home. We humans need Nature to live, but Nature does not need we humans. Humans are consuming Nature’s resources and polluting the […]
December 26, 2019
Two Famous Sages Speak About Interdependence In Nature
Interdependence is a defining feature of all life on our Earth. I have written about the vital importance of interdependence to all living things on our planet. But, long before I wrote about interdependence, the subject was discussed in the essays of two famous people — Charles Darwin and the Buddhist sage Thich […]
December 23, 2019
An Informed Story About Nature Guides Human Life
“The power of story is that it bypasses rhetoric and pierces the heart ” — Terry Tempest Williams Our Stories Define Who We Are And How We Conduct Our Lives The major problem that we humans face in this age is not climate change, over-consumption, or population growth. Our problem is that we are […]
December 12, 2019
Human “Entitlement” Is An Ecological Threat
For the last 35 years, I have lived the life of a college professor and high school teacher in the beautiful city of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico located some 250 miles due south of Tucson, Arizona along the eastern shore of the Sea of Cortez. One of my greatest pleasures and privileges is be an environmental […]
December 7, 2019
Gratitude Is A Powerful Conservation Strategy
As an environmental educator, I feel deeply privileged to be participating in the lives of my students. My passion is strong. I tend to be like a protective parent with my young people as I experience anger over those who continue to damage our Earth’s environment and the future of my “kids”. Many of my […]
October 28, 2019
Political Will And Environmental Thinking
As a working conservation biologist and an environmental educator, I have gained enough experience to be passionately euphoric as my young students acquire a genuine consciousness for interdependence in Nature. I have also experienced the stubborn ignorance of some adult humans as they exercise their belief that they are somehow entitled to special privileges that […]
September 14, 2019
Educators Can Guide Our Youth To Live Nature’s Story
“When our central organizing priority becomes the well-being of all life, then what happens through us is the recovery of our world.” -Joanna Macy – Active Hope I fear for the future of my class of high school students who are finishing their final year before going to college. We adults are leaving these fine […]
Our Youth Must Live Nature’s Story
“When our central organizing priority becomes the well-being of all life, then what happens through us is the recovery of our world.” -Joanna Macy – Active Hope I fear for the future of my class of high school students who are finishing their final year before going to college. We adults are leaving these fine […]
August 28, 2019
Humans and Nature: Three Perceptions of Reality
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh In my work as a conservation biologist, I often experience an arrogance by many adult humans as they refuse to embrace Nature as their home. These people seem to reject the idea that : […]
July 27, 2019
Interbeing – No Man Is An Island
“Not only is no man an island, but rather his “interbeing” is shared with the plants and animals he eats, the people who make his clothes and food, the people who populate his home, country and the very world he perceives, the insects that pollinate the trees that yield his fruit, shade him from […]
