Urbanimalia
@City_Creatures
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Encounters, stories, and tidbits about urban animals. Biweekly blog at @humansandnature: https://t.co/eZ1BQ7KyMz. Book, too: https://t.co/gCn7t34Ef8
Chicago
Joined August 2012
“Van Horn...writes with great beauty and dignity about how we might better align ourselves with the natural world and establish urban habitats where a diversity of wildlife can flourish..”—Wall Street Journal Read our free e-book, THE WAY OF THE COYOTE: https://t.co/Y1yFVYns5a
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I like to think the book and blog made some small contribution in encouraging people to treat the city as shared habitat, and that neighbors aren't only two-footed—they also have wings, fur, fins, scales, and stories that stretch through time and place, intertwined with our own.
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In two weeks, we'll have our final post, a collage featuring multiple contributors to the City Creatures book (the inspiration for the blog) who will share a bit of what it's meant to them to deepen their experience of urban wildlife.
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For our penultimate post, TCU professor Dave Aftandilian, who was a co-editor for the City Creatures book, shares his reflections on what City Creatures has meant to him and his teaching.
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Popping back in here to make a special announcement. After nearly 10 years(!), the City Creatures blog is singing its swan song. The spirit will survive: You will still be able to submit your urban wildlife stories/essays to @humansandnature.
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Honoured and delighted to have an essay on elephants, communication, memory and ethics in this magnificent 5-volume Kinship Series, beautifully envisioned and gracefully edited by @storyforager, Robin Wall Kimmerer & John Hausdoerffer for @humansandnature
https://t.co/HoHh27CjaF
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Interested in an excerpt from our Kinship book series? @bioneers recently reprinted an essay by @LyandaHaupt—"Starlings, Infinity, and the Kith of Kinship." In her piece, she reflects on her relationship with starlings and the infinity of intelligences. https://t.co/pKrwbtbysr
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In this excerpt from the brand new book, Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt reflects on the beyond-human kinship her relationship with starlings has illuminated, the infinity of intelligences cradled by the...
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"What makes community work is the acceptance of even those members whose presence is inconvenient, who do not think as we do, but who we still recognize as having a right to exist alongside us." 🐺🐺🐺🐺 On coyotes, by Bethany Barratt in @humansandnature
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"Telling Coyote Stories" is a post for the City Creatures Blog by Bethany Barratt
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Our friend and contributor Heather Swan spoke about owls, omens, and grief with @TTBOOK: https://t.co/5I0wxCvaWo
@beegood2bees
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Heather Swan is a writer with a gift for listening to the natural world. Still, she didn't know what to make of the barred owl who came to visit her every day for three weeks. And then she realized,
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After a long, difficult year, I am wary of hope. We have all learned caution, or maybe just maddening patience.” In our City Creatures Blog, author Andrea Ross Friederici writes from the depths of winter about birds, hope, and healing. https://t.co/6OHcmfOJm3
@friedericiross
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The brilliant @seasonalight - a PhD researcher @PlaceCentre @McrWritingSchl - has contributed to 'Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations': a vital new series co-edited by @storyforager Robin Wall Kimmerer & John Hausdoerffer @humansandnature
https://t.co/NBm0bUcsyK
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"We live in an astounding world of relations." So begins the five-volume Kinship series, edited by @storyforager, Robin Wall Kimmerer & John Hausdoerffer. Honoured to have an essay appearing in this epic @humansandnature project, publishing this autumn. https://t.co/TIcQ3UvjuG
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Podcast alert! What happens when we extend the idea of “personhood” beyond the human species? In partnership with @TTBOOK, we’ve launched a podcast exploring more-than-human connections and kinship across species!
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Big announcement: We’ve got a series of five new books coming out this fall! You can pre-order “Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations” today. Kinship explores our deep interconnections with the living world: https://t.co/7XdRuac4XL
@storyforager @ancestoryouwant
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"One afternoon I was sitting in my yard and I looked up and about 10 feet in front of my chair was an owl, looking straight at me. And in a few moments, she flew away. This owl kept returning to my yard. I was transfixed." — @beegood2bees
https://t.co/dZ9ENJbe5w
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Heather Swan is a writer with a gift for listening to the natural world. Still, she didn't know what to make of the barred owl who came to visit her every day for three weeks. And then she realized,
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Are you a fan of nature writing and deep connection with the more-than-human world? Our new book series—co-edited by Robin Wall Kimmerer—comes out this fall, and you can pre-order all five volumes today! https://t.co/7XdRuac4XL
#kinship #nature #TBR
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New post! What the Owls Knew https://t.co/9Ukj8tg4aC via @humansandnature
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"What the Owls Knew" is a post by Heather Swan for City Creatures
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New post! Dan Marcucci writes about "The Butterfly Way" #parsleyworms
https://t.co/sZ6IV8bh30 via @humansandnature
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New post! "Every Tree Has Its Own Energy" ➡️ Follow @humansandnature for the latest updates on the blog. 🌲💚
🎉New post! This week in our City Creatures Blog, J.P. Grygny hugs some trees: "Taking the time to interact with nature in a contemplative, sensory, and playful way...creates connections that are embodied, emotional, and ecological, all at the same time."
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New post! The Towhee’s Lesson in Noticing https://t.co/DK1j8oDruX via @humansandnature
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