Nature Spirits Want to Talk With Us: Listening Journeys in the More-Than-Human World

If we cannot see them, how can we communicate with nature spirits?

Those of us who love nature find a sense of wonder and peace in our favorite places. Forest, river, meadow, ocean, mountain, desert-these places call to us to come back, again and again.

Coleen Douglas, trained as a scientist, began learning to listen to the more-than-human world and was surprised when she started receiving messages from the trees: "Once when I was called to lie on the forest floor, redwood tree sent a messag...