I CAN’T REMEMBER where I first came across the term “eco-autobiography.” But, like a longspine sandbur stuck to my sock, it’s a word that I can’t let go of.
Eco-autobiography narrates one’s life in relationship to land, ancestors, and the more-than-human world. It includes both the good, those literal mountaintop moments of connection to creation, and the bad, those moments when one encounters the destruction of a beloved tract of land or water.
Gary Paul Nabhan’s Water in the Desert is a master class on how to write a spiritual eco-autobiography.
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