Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

In this week’s narrated essay, cultural ecologist and
geophilosopher David Abram conjures the impossible movements of
Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their
annual migrations, marveling at the reciprocal interactions that
guide these creatures across the wider body of the Earth. What if,
David asks, we understood migration as emerging from a
conversation—a spontaneous reciprocity—between migrating creatures
and the environments they migrate within? How might we humans,
whose senses have coevolved with the enfolding biosphere, begin to
recognize ourselves, too, as expressions of the animate, breathing
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