An Ethics of Wild Mind – A Conversation with David Hinton

How would our response to the ecological crisis be different if we
understood that our own consciousness is as wild as the breathing
Earth around us? In this conversation, poet, translator, and author
David Hinton reaches back to a time when cultures were built around
a reverence for the Earth and proposes that the sixth extinction we
now face is rooted in philosophical assumptions about our
separation from the living world. Urging us to reweave mind and
landscape, he offers an ethics tempered by love and kinship as a
way to navigate our era of disconnection. Read the transcript.
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