Nancy Lawson, The Humane Gardener

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A World of Discovery with author Nancy Lawson
Nurturing sensory wildscapes through creative land-healing efforts

Much has been written about landscaping to create a sense of place—and sensory appeal—for humans. But who has a better sense of place than the plants and animals who’ve been inhabited our communities for centuries and millennia? How do they perceive the world around them, and what do we miss when we focus more on the human-cultural sense of aesthetics than on the sensory experiences of our wild neighbors? Conventional landscaping practices interfere with other organisms’ abilities to interact with their environment in hidden and unintended ways. The lexicon we use to describe habitat restoration efforts often reinforces these dynamics. Through science, heart, our powers of observation, and a more expansive language for our approaches to land-healing, we can learn to mitigate these disruptions and create sensory refuges in an increasingly noisy world.