Learning to notice and love in a more than human world

Abstract

We live surrounded by life with the most diverse forms and modes of existence; we cohabit with thousands of other creatures beyond the human spectrum, beings to whom we are intimately connected, which we do not see but from whom we receive so much, yet, who we do not honour. This abundance of intertwined beings is a great wealth, an evolutionary legacy that we must recognize, revere. It is urgent that we help to develop an art of living in which noticing the multispecies world and caring for it is at the centre. Cultivating attention to the “things of the world”1 is probably the greatest intent of education, in that it should nourish recognition and love for this multispecies world in which we live, so that with it, we continue “worlding”.