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"If words can do something, if they can sink into the heart, open up new paths of perception, lead us to the threshold of a forest, this is all to the good. Then we must leave them. They’ve done their work. They got our bodies where they needed to be. At this threshold, we must thank them for their service, and lay them down. It is time to stop speaking and listen. Come to the trees: to forget and to remember. To forget the straightjackets of manufactured time and cubicles. To remember something much older than the Gregorian calendar and the forty-plus-hour workweek. Come to the trees: to touch and be touched by something more primary, more whole.” - Dr. Gavin Van Horn, "Breathing Trees"

Welcome to the fourth and final episode of REBIRTH, a limited podcast series produced by advaya, a platform for transformative education. I am your host, Tammy Gan, and this four-part series is produced in partnership with Stella McCartney Beauty, a conscious alternative to luxury skincare.

This episode features Dr. Gavin Van Horn: Executive Editor for Center for Humans and Nature Press, and co-editor, with Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer, of the award-winning five-volume series, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. As we usher in springtime and we're urged out the door by our bodies, let us give in to the urge of being outside. May we learn to treat our bodies as receptive instruments. How do we develop kinship with the more-than-human world, with sprawling creativity and multiple intelligences? How can we receive with all our senses, leaving words behind? And how can this radically different orientation begin to restore frayed or fragmented relationships with the earth? In this closing conversation, we look at how we may tend to our bodies and ecosystems, in the season of new life, and receive guidance forward.