DJ Lee: The Natural World and Our Connection with Nature

Beyond Talking Points, hosted by Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, provides author and community focused interviews to highlight a diverse range of perspectives on various topics.
DJ Lee, writer, teacher, and regents professor in the English Department at Washington State University and the author of Remote: Finding Home in The Bitterroots, thinks "teaching and learning are humans' two great gifts. And that the most exquisite forms of communication happen in that little petri dish called the classroom, whether the classroom is in a school, a field, a street corner, a mountain, or a dream."
DJ can be reached at DebbieJLee.com where you can read Selected Shorter Works and sign up to receive witness ∞ wilderness, a monthly miscellany.
0:00 Intro
2:06 Mysterious box from DJ's grandmother
5:49 What we hide from ourselves
8:49 There's so much we don't know about the wild
13:23 Mental acuity, sense of expansion in nature
16:29 Heightened sense of presence when in the wilderness
21:10 Becoming a mariner, Svalbard residency
27:21 A sense of wonder can change your perspective
31:49 Natural ancient wisdom and technology
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