Movies
- Children and Nature: My Neighbour Totoro
- L’homme qui plantait des arbres: The Man Who Planted Trees
- Before Cameron’s Avatar: Princess Mononoke
- Escape to Happiness and Insanity: Gilliam’s Brazil
- Nostalgia Distilled: Ghibli’s Only Yesterday
- Finding the Middle Ground: Pixar’s Wall-E
- Change, Choice, Connection: Cloud Atlas
- Only Yesterday Comes To North America
- The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki, Orion Magazine
Literature
- Life Beyond Death and Fate: Le Guin’s Lavinia
- Winter’s Tale: The Left Hand of Darkness
- The Left Hand of Darkness: Nature, Culture, and the Other
- No Nature, No Culture, Only Love: The Road
- Crossing the Wall: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
- The Dispossessed: Urras and Hope Betrayed
- The Dispossessed: Anarres the Promise Kept
- The Dispossessed: On Time and Meaning
- Look Up: Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars
- Place and Memory: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
- Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo: Seasons in the City
Non-Fiction
- Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education, Part 1
- Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education, Part 2
- Children and Environmental Tragedies
- Here, Home, Us: Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
- Food, Awareness, Action: The One Straw Revolution
- Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Tao Today: A Sage’s Take on Modern Society, Part 1
- Tao Today: A Sage’s Take on Modern Society, Part 2
- A Plant’s View: Pollan’s Botany of Desire
- George Orwell’s Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
- From the Tidepool to the Stars: Steinbeck’s Log from the Sea of Cortez
- On Whimwhams and Wild Whats: Amy Leach’s Things That Are
- Funky Asian Acorns: Schema’s Seeds and Leaves
- Look Up: Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars
- On Place and Loss: Flyway’s Shells
- Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs
- Zoomorphic Magazine, A Tapir’s Tale
- More Than Ferns: Oliver Sacks’ Oaxaca Journal
- Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
- Me and Gravity, Orion Magazine
- Rhythm, Hippocampus Magazine
- What Matters, River Teeth Journal
- Six Degrees of Interconnection, Orion Magazine
- On Pools and Penguins: Zoomorphic’s Brave Bird
- The Briar Patch, The Sunlight Press
- All My Best Words Were Hers
- Transience, Juxtaprose Magazine
- Lodestone, Tahoma Lit Review
- Lammergeier, Journeys to Earthsea
- Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient, The Hopper
- Newfound, Journeys to HYRULE_
- The Willowherb Review: El Lugar de Los Sueños
- Second Best is Best, Gulf Coast Online
- Yes, You can Leave The Hospital Without Naming Your Baby
- Utter, Earth – AGNI Magazine
- Crafting with Ursula: Writing Nature and Nature Writing
- Cascadia Field Guide: Art | Ecology | Poetry
Art
- Narrative in Art: The Changing Countryside
- Picture Poems: Window and Belonging
- Past Meets Present: Shan Shui Environmental Art
- A Boy and His Plants: The Curious Garden
- Manufactured Landscapes: A meditation on man-made spaces
- The Art of Stewardship, by Greg Mort
- X-Ray Photography of Nature, by Arie van’t Riet
- My Top 5 Eco-Art Tales, by the Artist at Ohio Falls
- The Art of Connection: You Are Stardust
- Nature and Music: The Work of John Luther Adams
- Animal Sculptures by Ellen Jewett
- Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking
- The Drop That Contained the Sea, by Christopher Tin
- Finding Place through Art and Science: The Field Journals of Lyn Baldwin
- Art, Animal, Essence: The Drawings of Charley Harper
Video Games
- Interactive Storytelling: Thatgamecompany’s Flower
- An Alien’s Perspective: Pikmin 1 and 2
- Seeds of the Future: Zelda’s The Wind Waker
- Zelda’s Twisted Tale: Majora’s Mask
- Pikmin 3 Photography
- MOTHER 3, A Literary Video Game
- Newfound, Journeys to HYRULE_
Documentaries
- 6 Billion Others: Climate Voices
- Solitary Man: Alone in the Wilderness
- A Cognitive Shift: The Overview Effect
Earthsea
- Know Thyself: A Wizard of Earthsea
- Freedom’s Burden: The Tombs of Atuan
- Mindful Action: Le Guin’s The Farthest Shore, Part 1
- Le Guin’s The Farthest Shore, Part 2
- Ekostories Reconnect: A Wizard of Earthsea
- Ekostories Reconnect: The Farthest Shore
- Crafting with Ursula: Writing Nature and Nature Writing
Personal
- A Landscape’s Story: The Nitobe Memorial Garden
- Reflections of Nepal: Escaping Kathmandu
- Reflections of Nepal: Landscape Impressions
- Reflections of Nepal: Romanticizing Reality
- Reflections of Nepal: The Tharu of the Terai
- Playing to Tie: An Orange County Almanac
- The Power of Vulnerability, by Brené Brown
- My Favourite Superhuman Protagonists
- On Praise and Toads Revisited
- What Earthbound Means to Me
- The Nature of Hayao Miyazaki
- Orion Bread Loaf Conference for Environmental Writers
- Thoughts on the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference
- All My Best Words Were Hers
- The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki, Orion Magazine
- Crafting with Ursula: Writing Nature and Nature Writing
- Imaginary Worlds Podcast: Miyazaki Imagines an Environment
Short Stories
- Changing Planes: The Nna Mmoy Language
- Love is the Plan the Plan is Death!
- It’s All Relative: Le Guin’s Direction of the Road
- Antspeak and Rocktalk: The Author of Acacia Seeds
- Mind of a Clam: Driftfish, A Marine Life Anthology
- Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo: Seasons in the City
- 2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future
- Our Museum of the Future – Shenandoah
- Proxies, Orca: A Literary Journal
- Flash Fiction Magazine, Last Light
- Crafting with Ursula: Writing Nature and Nature Writing
TV shows
- A 90’s Flashback: Dinosaurs’ Changing Nature
- Star Trek’s Finest Hour: The Inner Light
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – World and Mythology
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – Forces for Change
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – Balance and Moral Courage
- Escapades in Ecology: Simpsons’ Bart the Mother
- Of Myths and Metaphors: Star Trek TNG’s Darmok
- The Cost of Change: Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s Progress
Comics
- Journey to the Far Side: There’s a Hair in my Dirt!
- Action, Responsibility, Empathy: Flight of the Hummingbird
- Art Meets Philosophy: Porcellino’s Thoreau at Walden
- The Greatest Ekostory Ever Told: The Nausicaä Project
- Nausicaä Vol. 1: The Valley of the Wind
- Nausicaä Vol. 2: The Acid Lake
- Nausicaä Vol. 3: The Dorok War
- Nausicaä Vol. 4: Catastrophe!
- Nausicaä Vol. 5: Daikaisho
- Nausicaä Vol. 6-1: The Place Dreamed
- Nausicaä Vol. 6-2: The God Warrior
- Nausicaä Vol. 7-1: The Garden
- Nausicaä Vol. 7-2: The Crypt
Interesting Links:
- Literature as a way of seeing
- Fight NDD, get your kids outside
- Metaphor Crafters: The Beehive Collective
- An Integrated Landscape: Yongsan National Park
- The Time Traveler, by artistatexit0
- The Age of Solastalgia
- The Sagan Series, by Reid Gower
- Isaac’s Hummingbird, by artistatexit0
- A Resilient Society, by Joyroots
- Red, by Ronin Waters
- Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art
- Time’s End: Majora’s Mask Remixed, by Theophany
- The Beauty of Water Droplets, by Andrew Osokin
- Doing what I can: Revisiting the Hummingbird
- Distance, Perspective, Awe: The Overview Effect
- Garbage Landscapes, by Yao Lu
- Food is the Problem and the Solution: TED Talk by Ron Finley
- The Politics of Play: Seeking Adventure in a Risk-Averse Society
- The Feminine and the Tao: An Interview with Le Guin
- Why We Tell Stories: The Science of Narrative
- It’s Not (Always) About the Lorax, by Michelle Nijhuis
- Beyond Hope, by Derrick Jensen
- Hope is what we become in action, by Frances Moore Lappé
- The Wind in the Willows as Eco Story, by Nancy Adams
- Kim Stanley Robinson – What’s After Capitalism?
- Music and Storytelling: Climate Change through a Cello
- Sound and Music as Narrative in Flower
- The Windrider Project, by Karl Schaal
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Three Ways
- Out of the Wild: A Conversation between Pollan and Cronon
- On nature, culture, and self: An interview
- On Love, Change, and Possibility
- On the Evolution of Nature Writing
- Mishchenko’s Macrotastic Wonders
- Art and Science, Wonder and Wisdom
- Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards
- The Camunico Annual: On Cultural Leadership
- Illusion of Light: Journey Into the Unseen
- Canadian Landscapes, by The Group of Seven
- BBC Radio’s Adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness
- The Tolkien Ensemble: Treebeard’s Song
- Midway: A Message from the Gyre
- Do You Understand? A Story from Nepal
- Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin – A Documentary
- The Lorax and Literature’s Moral Obligation
- On The Edge, Calling Back: An Interview with Barry Lopez
Ekostories 
Absolutely LOVE your word clouds – combining the power of words, vision, feelings, and inspirations all in one…. Have just stumbled onto your blog and am inspired. Thanks.
Thanks for the compliment! I find word clouds to be useful visual tools myself, great for just getting the gist of a longer piece.
Same same…very cool way of ‘hinting’ at the content. Such a simple truth throughout: we create, learn, and recreate the world through our stories and there are too few out there on this topic. I’m an ecologist – unfortunately more neck deep in numbers than in the woods at the moment – but I’ve been trying to tell some tales along the way – gonzo kine stories – the process and human connections – they too often get distilled by formalized research. Happy to find a shared conviction, though your effort here put these ideas out there much more eloquently.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. This is a project I’ve wanted to do for a while, to find different approaches to convey important ideas around culture, nature, and the environment. Narratives grand and small shape our perception of and actions towards the world. This blog is intended to highlight a few of those that shaped mine.
I spent a month volunteering in Koke’e State Park as well, so reading about your adventures is fantastic!
I love your use of word clouds, here. What a great idea!
Thanks Jonanne!
Hey Isaac, I wanted to thank you because several of your analysis helped me with an essay I had to write for uni. I had to write about the movie Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (which I absolutely recommend you see, because it has great meaning behind it and it is great for analysis), and some of your perspectives in some tv shows and movies helped me to organize my thoughts and ideas. Keep the good work!
Hi Micaela, thanks for reading my stuff, and I’m glad it helped with your piece. Looked up the premise of that movie – it sounds really interesting, will have to check it out!