Ecology

By Dan McKanan. Edited by Russell C. Powell Henry David Thoreau is many things to many people: an apostle of simplicity, a brilliant nature writer, a theorist of civil disobedience, one of the first Americans to turn to Asia for spiritual insight, and a...

ASC: How did you start your career as a botanical artist? What are your influences? DT: When I started painting, plants felt like a natural subject because of my experience of nature in Miami and Colombia. I was also interested in shamanism, and through...

By Katie Terezakis, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology / Edited by Russell Powell Adelma Grenier Simmons (1903-1997) was an herbalist, writer, educator, and host to thousands of people who came to her Connecticut farm...

By Stella Sandford / Edited by Russell Powell To understand what is at stake in contemporary debates over plant agency, it is helpful to situate them within the well-accepted narrative of recent biological theory. It goes like this: at the beginning of...

Edited by Rachael Petersen The passing cloud, the cooling breeze, the abrupt squall, the wind that gently blows then suddenly strikes, the light that dims and returns; so many sources imperceptible to the untrained eye and that disfigure the water’s...

By Fabrizio Baldassari / Edited by Russell Powell Throughout the history of Western philosophy and science, scholars have relegated plants to the background of life on Earth. Two influential Aristotelian assumptions primarily drive this view: (1) that...

By Damiano Benvegnù / Edited by Rachael Petersen University of St Andrews db307@st-andrews.ac.uk For many Americans, the term "Shaker" might conjure images of elegant wooden furniture, but the chances that they have ever met an actual Shaker are slim to...

The following post from Russell C. Powell, CSWR Research Affiliate, is part of an ongoing series from affiliates of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. Turn or log on to any news channel or website today and political pundits will tell you all...

The following post from Rachael Petersen, MDiv '24 is the first in an ongoing series from affiliates of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. The history of so-called “Western thought” has not been kind to plants – at least, that’s how the story...