J. Drew Lanham - Pathfinding Through the Improbable
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2023
- The ornithologist Drew Lanham is lyrical in the languages of science, humans, and birds. His way of seeing and hearing and noticing the present and the history that birds traverse - through our backyards and beyond - is a revelatory way to be present to the world and to life in our time.
He is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teacher, and Certified Wildlife Biologist at Clemson University. He is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield County, South Carolina, where he grew up. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature and a collection of poetry and meditations, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.
The episode last aired on March 24, 2022.
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Drew Lanham is a gift. Listening to him talk about nature is like a masterclass in poetry.
Thank you so much for this conversation. This a poem I wrote some years ago watching a bird take flight one morning:
That bird must be a mystic!
How could it soar across Your sky
With hues of fire beneath its eye
And Your mantle of dawn embracing its side,
And not know you God?
That bird must be a mystic!
Thank you for this. When I immigrated from the U.S. to northern Europe I was astounded, ambushed even, by how reliant I'd been on the birds (and plants and trees) in my homeland garden to signal to me time, season, weather, family history, story, way of being and belonging. Suddenly they were absent and new names had to be learned without the benefit of a whole childhood to teach them to me. How beautifully this talk dives into why it's mattered.
After listening to this wonderful man I will never look at a bird in the same way again. Thank you! 🐦
Thank you for bringing these podcast to us!
The beauty of him talk and do the sounds of birds 🐦 make me cry.
In a world so difficult right now to listening such talk is sublime give me hope thank you so much for the beautiful humans ❤️ in these podcasts ❤️
One of my favorite podcast episodes and Krista's suggested book is included in my Audible membership - alright!