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Rebel Nature

Christopher Grant Ward

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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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I'm sharing this special episode of Rebel Nature today so you know, how very special your life is. For this week, you are one of the only human lifetimes chosen to witness an incredibly rare traveler put on a show. It turns out, perhaps once every 80,000 years, that comet unceremoniously named Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (can we just call it …
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This is Part 1 of several journal entries I made as I hiked the Sierras over the last few years. I was asked to retell some of these stories as an alternative to the explorations of science and history thus far on Rebel Nature. I hope you enjoy this departure and find a 1st person account of deep backcountry experience worthwhile. ***Credits*** Sup…
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What has compelled humans to seek out perfection and symmetry throughout history, and why symmetry doesn’t necessarily equal beauty? Finally, what is to be gained by embracing the real world, the natural asymmetrical world that we are actually hardwired to love and appreciate. It turns out, your home, your style, your life can very well benefit fro…
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*You can get the Merlin app here: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ Look at the world around you. Virtually everything you see has been created. Our lives are full of things, of inventions. We humans love to invent things, for convenience, efficiency and enjoyment. But, when do these things truly help us, and when can they harm us? Sometimes invent…
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I't never too late to contribute to this episode. Even a year later! I want to hear from you. What are your favorite, most memorable experiences in Nature? Where do you retreat to again and again? Who do you go with, or do you go alone? I can't wait to hear. If you've always wanted to hear your voice on a podcast, now is your chance! Even if you're…
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Photos, notes and research links for this episode can be found here. https://www.christophergrantward.com/blog/animals Whales mourn. Dolphins play. Orcas have dialects. Parrots can ask existential questions. Rats giggle and tickle each other. Birds give their children names. Fish create art. Do we honestly still believe we are the only ones on plan…
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Photos, notes and research links for this episode can be found here. https://www.christophergrantward.com/blog/time ________ We feel stressed for not having enough time and guilty for wasting it. In modern life, the clock makes time a commodity, an asset, to be spent or saved. Clocks now define Time, not the other way around, and we just follow alo…
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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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