Resources: Further Reading
Creative and Collaborative Practices
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Burk, Wendy. Tree Talks: Southern Arizona (Fort Collins, CO: Delete Press, 2016). Link.
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Jokela, Timo and Maria Huhmarniemi. “Arctic Art Education in Changing Nature and Culture.” Education in the North 29, no. 2 (2022): 4–27. Download.
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Joy, Francis. A Book of 100 Poems and Magical Versus (Rovaniemi, Finland: Pohjolan Palvelut Oy, 2021). Link.
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Joy, Francis. Wild Wisdom from the Arctic North: A Book of 100 Magical Poems, Verses and Thinking (Rovaniemi, Finland: Pohjolan Palvelut Oy, 2022). Link.
Ryan, John C. “Poetry as Plant Script: Interspecies Dialogue and Poetic Collaboration in the Northern Tablelands Region of New South Wales.” Transformations 30 (2017): 127–149. Download.
Ryan, John C. “Writing the Lives of Plants: Phytography and the Botanical Imagination.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25, no. 1 (2020): 97–122. Download.
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Ryan, John C. and Glen Phillips. Seeing Trees: A Poetic Arboretum (Montrose, CO: Pinyon Publishing, 2020). Link.
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Indigenous People's Perspectives
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Kimmerer, Robin. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Corvallis, OR: OSU Press, 2003). Link.
Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015). Link.
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Kimmerer, Robin. “White Pine: Pinus strobus.” TEA: The Ethnobotanical Assembly. 9, Spring (2023). Link.
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Manker, Ernst. People of Eight Seasons: The Story of the Lapps (Helsingborg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1975).
Sámi Museum Siida. “The Sámi Homeland’s Eight Seasons.” Sámi Museum Website. Link.
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Kindred Organisations
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Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland: www.arcticcentre.org/EN
Biodiverse Anthropocenes Programme, University of Oulu, Finland: www.oulu.fi/en/research/biodiverse-arctic-and-global-resilience/biodiverse-anthropocenes
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Bjärkan Resilience Project, Northern Sweden: https://www.bjarkan.org
Cae Mabon Retreat Centre: https://www.caemabon.co.uk
Eternal Forest: 1,000 Forest Sanctuaries For 1,000 Years: https://eternalforest.earth
Institute of Relational Being: www.instituteofrelationalbeing.org
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Kone Foundation, Finland: https://koneensaatio.fi
Nature Institute (Craig Holdrege): www.natureinstitute.org
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene: https://networkingwithplants.org
Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia: www.notredame.edu.au/research/institutes-and-initiatives/nulungu
Plant Initiative: https://plantinitiative.org
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School of Arts and Humanities, Southern Cross University, Australia: www.scu.edu.au/study/arts-and-humanities/
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Finnish Environment
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City of Rovaniemi. “Eight Seasons of Northern Finland.” City of Rovaniemi Website. Link.
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Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). “Every Ninth Species in Finland is Threatened.” Environment.fi. Link.
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Ingold, Tim and Terhi Kurttila. “Perceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland.” Body & Society 6, nos. 3-4 (2000): 183–196. Link.
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Jones, Michael. “Seasonality and Landscape Exploration in Northern Europe: An Introductory.” In Seasonal Landscapes, eds. Hannes Palang, Helen Sooväli, and Anu Printsmann (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2007), 17–60. Link.
Krause, Franz. “Seasons as Rhythms on the Kemi River in Finnish Lapland.” Ethnos 78, no. 1 (2012): 23–46. Link.
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Forest and Plant Intelligence
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Darwin, Charles and Francis Darwin. The Power of Movement in Plants (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881). Download.
Pollan, Michael. “The Intelligent Plant.” The New Yorker 15 Dec (2013). Link.
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Ryan, John C., Patricia Vieira, and Monica Gagliano, eds. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press, 2021). Link.
Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (New York: Penguin Random House, 2022. Link.
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The Mind of Plants. Project Website. 2021. Video Interviews with Contributors. Link.
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Trewavas, Anthony. “Plant Intelligence: Mindless Mastery.” Nature 415, no. 841 (2002). Link.
Trewavas, Anthony, František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, and Paco Calvo. “Consciousness Facilitates Plant Behavior.” Trends in Plant Science 25, no 3 (2020): 216–17. Download.
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Spirituality and Plants
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Cowan, Eliot. Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants (Wild Flower Press, 1991). Link.
Techniques of Connection
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Pareidolia: Sara Falligant. “The Science and Possibilities of Perception.” Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Website 8 Mar. 2023. Link.
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Pareidolia: Chen Wang, Liangcheng Yu, Yiyi Mo, Lincoln C. Wood, and Carry Goon. “Pareidolia in a Built Environment as a Complex Phenomenological Ambiguous Stimuli.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9 (2022): 1–23. Download.
Pareidolia: Susan G. Wardle, Louise Ewing, George L. Malcolm, Sanika Paranjape, and Chris I. Baker. “Children Perceive Illusory Faces in Objects as Male More Often Than Female.” Cognition 235, no. 105398 (2023). Link.
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