*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 inventions unintentionally create negative consequences, and sometimes they unintentionally create positive outcomes. However, it turns out, it's how we use inventions, and not the inventions themselves, that creates the opportunity for benefit or harm. Setting boundaries with the invented world is more important than ever. Nature is perhaps the last place we can go, that is not of your own construction.

Credits

Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies

Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios

Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward.

Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY

You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

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Credits

Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

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 listening a year after this broadcast, you can still contribute! Send me a text or audio file to hello@christophergrantward.com We will UPDATE this actual episode to include your story. You can post anonymous if you'd like.

The vision of Rebel Nature is a community of people who can share their experiences with the outside world, and realize that they are not alone with their struggle to fit in the modern world.

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Credits

Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

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 planet Earth to feel our complex emotions, think deeply, and have fully conscious and aware lives? What does a survey of the current knowledge of the animal kingdom tell us about ourselves and the human attributes we find so valuable.

By the end of this episode, you’ll understand how other animals have many of our abilities and traits, how some animals far surpass our abilities, and the one attribute that actually unites the animal kingdom. You will see how our human perspective on ‘thought’ is just one interpretation, and you may be humbled to learn that animals have superpowers of mind and body that we could only dream of. By peering into the souls of these beautiful creatures, and comparing them with our own, you’ll gain a better understanding of what it actually means to think, communicate, and most importantly, what it means to feel. It turns out that it is not a language, nor how we think, but perhaps emotion, that is the beautiful commonality that binds the animal kingdom together.

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Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies

Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios

Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward.

Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY

Any research or primary audio in this episode has been credited in the video and also in the links here: https://www.christophergrantward.com/blog/animals

You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

Mentioned in this episode:

Credits

Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com