The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Invisibility of Nature – Michael McCarthy

Just as modern science is catching up to the ancient understanding
of our deep emotional and physiological relationship to the living
world, the twin forces of urbanization and technological
advancement are pulling our bodies and our attention away from the
elements and rhythms of nature that are so essential to our
well-being. In this narrated essay, naturalist Michael McCarthy
explores the ways in which the “anthropause” ushered in by the
coronavirus has—on an unprecedented scale—made nature visible
again, even as the world’s growing cities increasingly sever
humanity from the living world. “Perhaps the most significant way
of all in which nature has come back to us during the pandemic,” he
says, “is that people turned to it themselves.” Learn more about
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