“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

To a Corporate CEO whose paycheck is dependent on quarterly reports instead of economic sustainability, the premise of How Wolves Change Rivers seems preposterous. To anyone else who rejects the idea of sustainability it just shows how smart Mother Nature really is and just how dumb humans can be sometimes.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

Sometimes there are BIG lessons to be learned from little things. Such is the case with this little movie offered by George Monbiot. It teaches the connectivity of the universe while tugging at your heart strings. No small feat.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

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Recommended book:

Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature: A Michael Roads Reader
by Michael J. Roads.

Michael Roads had always been close to nature, but when a river started talking to him, he began to doubt his sanity. A series of encounters with the natural world followed, and Roads began to listen -- and let go. He found himself led stage by stage to a final wisdom, remarkable in its simplicity and in its message of hope for humanity. This book, a bind-up of his two best-known works, beautifully articulates that message.

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