“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
“My work as a National Geographic Fellow, wildlife biologist, and conservation photographer has always been to mend the rift between modern humans and the more than human world. Through visual, written and spoken stories, I strive to capture the intimate rhythms of family bonds, shared challenges, and ancient behaviors that call us back to our wild selves. My photography and film reveal that the boundaries we imagine between ourselves and nature are illusions—reminding us, as Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote, “It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a “species loneliness”—estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night.” Rachel Carson said, “man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
