Ep 20 - Fletcher Tucker - The Art of Cultivating Intimacy with the More than Human World

Fletcher Tucker is musician and practitioner of earth-based skills, co-founder of Wildtender, which offers immersive wilderness programs that cultivate intimacy with the natural world, connect with wisdom traditions, and nurture human wholeness.

We chat about:

• What it means to listen to the whispers of nature, of the more than human world
• The way in which modernity has severed our connection to this world
• Practices to participate and cultivate intimacy with the more than human world like reciprocity, foraging, and creating ritual space
• How natural history is the best way to form this connection for those with a low "woo-woo threshold"
• The way poetry is "the liberating form of language" that allows us to best describe these spaces
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You can find more of Fletcher at Wildtender and Gnome Life Records

Links mentioned in the conversation:

• The Gary Snyder quote comes from The Etiquette of Freedom essay, found in The Practice of the Wild
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
• The Dharmanaut Circle community w Erik Davis

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