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Michael Pollan mentioned!!! P. 234 ish

How is this the first I’ve heard the term “Lauderdale paradox.” I’ve heard people talk about what it describes for years, but I never knew it had a name!!! Quick google definition “Lauderdale paradox is the idea that private wealth and public wealth move in opposite directions… first formulated in 1804 by James Maitland... Ecological economists have used the term since the late 1980s”

Animism discussed in terms of Piaget and then DEFENDED as a rational psychology of elders?? HELLO? THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING TO ME

“Interdisciplinarity in ecopsychology” is the phrase that’s tattooed underneath my skin. I didn’t even know it was there until I read it here and started basically vibrating with joy. This is my resonant frequency.

This book. Feels like the inside of my brain. Every concept here just fits so well with the way I see the world?? I! Was not expecting that! It’s so strange to spend 20-something years being challenged by other perspectives in books and then to suddenly find one that is just Your Whole Worldview in pages and ink. Reading it feels like breathing. WILD???

“The practice of the wild surely includes holding babies well” I. Needed to read this today. Thank you, Andy, for this line. For this entire section really 💕

“Fidelity to a discipline” insert nervous side eye meme here

Anti-capitalism as an effort toward human developmental milestone revision THAT IS BUILT AROUND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES, man, inject that right into my veins. FUNDAMENTAL ECOPSYCHOLOGY BABEY! IDS HUSC AND NATSCI CONSERVATION DEGREE HAS LED ME TO THIS VERY MOMENT, THIS VERY TEXT. HECK YEA!!!

Ever-widening spheres of meaning and participation pp. 122-123. Piagetian stages ?

“Like the fox in the forest, which is not mine just because I see it, the fox in the dream is not mine just because I dream it”