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Welcome to Rebel Nature, the podcast that explores how Nature can rewire our brains and our perception of everyday things. Every other week, award-winning artist and naturalist Christopher Grant Ward explores open questions about how we live in the modern world, how we define ourselves, and how we can challenge our existing perspectives by looking for answers to these questions in the natural world. By listening, you’ll learn new ways to see life for what it is, what it can be, and gain insi ...
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Photos, notes and research links for this episode can be found here. https://www.christophergrantward.com/blog/blue ——— SUMMARY ——— A word for the color blue wasn't always around. Written in 750 BC, Homer's Odyssey does not contain the word for blue. Perhaps because Blue is rare in the animal kingdom. So often it's just a trick of light in the natu…
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What is it about being a child that connected so many of us, so completely, to Nature? And why is it, that at some point along the way to becoming adults, we were encouraged, or sometimes shamed, into both abandoning our childlike ways and leaving behind our daily rituals with the outside world? Well, it’s taken me a lifetime to figure out who I on…
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Do you ever get the feeling that our modern life isn't all that it's cracked up to be? That the way we live day to day, and the things we choose to prioritize, aren't necessarily the right things, at least the ones that resonate deeply in our souls. For me, life seems to be full of rules that either I chafe at, or have become so used to, that I don…
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