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Doug Bierend is a writer and freelance journalist based in upstate New York, as well as the author of In Search of Mycotopia.
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
One hope I have for my work is to advocate for recognition of and recommitment to our rootedness in Earth, to push against the deepening processes of alienation and abstraction from nature and one another that would have us forget this basic reality.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
To me, being part of a thriving ecosystem means operating in reciprocity with human and more-than-human, with the living and non-living, to forsake the disastrous illusion of individualism in favor of being humble and grateful parts of a grander whole.