| Summary: | We live during a period of unparalleled, human-caused, systemic disruption of the biosphere and the very processes that sustain life on Earth. As such, it is important that we critically assess the beliefs and corresponding actions that have led us to our present state. By allowing destructive habits of being to disintegrate, we can then direct our intellectual, emotional, individual, and collective energy toward eco-social restoration. Destructive practices can be learned and unlearned. The following essay considers how the convergence of ecological thought and poetic inquiry can support the learning of embodied and restorative cultural practices. Responding to the present state of cultural disconnection from life's organic cycles, it strives to "re-story," in form and content, the dominant Western cultural narrative. Eco-social restoration is discussed within the context of popular environmental thought, traditional education, eco-poetry, and the politics of place.
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