Indigenous peoples have always recognized animals, but most of us no longer remember who animals are anymore. Women have unique relationships with animals because we value the knowledge that comes from intimacy as much as the knowledge that comes from scientific observation. I wanted to be able to document these relationships and their profundity, so that they would be visible to the world.
Animals carry different and varied intelligences.
It is possible to have relationships with anima ls in which we understand and learn about and from each other. The great tragedy is that animals and other species are becoming extinct at a horrendous rate because of diminishing habitats, hunting, poaching, human use, enslavement, and environmental degeneration. Their fate and the fate of the earth are intimately tied. Intimate Nature reaches out through essays, interviews, stories and poetry. Some can be read to or told to children who are not yet ready to read themselves.