Taylor Hood 🌿

Editor/Outreach @EcolCitizen & Lead Ed #RewildingSuccesses. MA Res Earth-centred sacrality Dunsany/Tolkien (award). BSc Hons Ecology 1st & Countryside Mgmt Dip.

[Taylor Hood 🌿 @Sepulchrave4]

Today marks the full release of Vol 9 No 1 of @EcolCitizen. I particularly enjoyed reviewing this volume's many challenging papers.

My story 'The Opening' appears as part of #FeralLines, a flash fiction collection I co-edited with Joe Gray.

Read here:
https://t.co/vB0EeZ433G

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Followers may like to know that I’ve begun revamping https://t.co/rQI0x3yHdR. Work is still ongoing, but I have consolidated and refined the site, focusing mostly on writing and communication. Most importantly, I’ve clarified the philosophical credo I call 'the other side'.

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🏔️ The Living Mountain - Book Review https://t.co/gWb9lCyvqb

#Cairngorms #NanShepherd #Ecocentrism #Scotland

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Travelling the Chilterns - Old Kiln Lakes & Oakley Hill Nature Reserve https://t.co/I9gPBsLGdW

#Chilterns #ChilternsNationalLandscape

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Travelling the Chilterns - Lodge Hill https://t.co/aZG1SI9EA7

#Chilterns #ChilternsNationalLandscape

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"A mysterious boy from nature collects stars and sends them to every city child, who is unable to see the stars trough the foggy sky."

This short animated film by Yawen Zheng has long been an inspiration for my creative work.

https://t.co/VlKlxRuvxv

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📢 The Ecological Citizen calls attention to 'Say It' (2025), a powerful #ecocentric jeremiad voiced by Jan Zwicky and Garth Martens.

🌲 To listen, scroll down to 'Readings and Conversations':
https://t.co/i9rlJ9ylIs

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Travelling the Chilterns - Cowleaze Bluebells https://t.co/AbXdO8pray

#Chilterns #ChilternsNationalLandscape

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🌍 🎉 Today marks the journal's 10th birthday!

Read about our history:
https://t.co/dmRVxQqTRv

Watch our introductory video on the importance of #ecocentrism: https://t.co/2ofCrI5Dnf

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Travelling the Chilterns - Upon Chinnor Hill https://t.co/AkGUsB7weq

#Chilterns #ChilternsNationalLandscape

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Travelling the Chilterns - Down From the Door https://t.co/x1MPRDoQQK
#ChilternHills #Chilterns #ChilternsNationalLandscape

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🏙️ Vol 9-2 is live!

The pieces published so far include writing on #war’s environmental impacts, hope and #ecocrisis, #urbanlaw, #AI and nature, #birdsafe design, remembrance of #Ehrlich, #multispeciesjustice, and anti-utopian #urbanism.

Read it here: https://t.co/UHEzlBOiVO

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Amongst Beechen Leaves (4k) https://t.co/6Ct86cBdVW

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I plan to write an essay on the value of the old, touching on progress, ecology and aesthetics—but, most of all, how elders have guided me over the years. Patrick Curry is a prime example. Today, we visited Burnham Beeches. Here we are beside the Druids' Oak (800 years old).

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Looking through my photos, I found this beauty from a couple of years ago. It shows me scaling—with care—a majestic beech at Chinnor Hill Nature Reserve. This is perhaps one of my favourite photos.

I've not yet thought up a title. What about 'Wanderer in an Emerald Dream'?

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The Road - Book Review https://t.co/Viqk7ea2vI

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💚 What Is... Biophilia? https://t.co/QE09mzGPf7

#Biophilia #BiophilicDesign #Ecocentrism #EarthJurisprudence #NatureHeals

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This short video (and attendant musings in the description) concerns the prevalence of road fatalities in a human-dominated world.

https://t.co/lAEV8H17dd

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For clarity, ‘more-than-human’ works when describing a whole (e.g. ‘the more-than-human world’ à la Abram). It crumbles when used as a group label (‘the more-than-human’) or contrasted with humans (‘human & more-than-human lives’), because this usage doesn’t define a clear group.

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🌱 Environmental humanities writers, please stop using these phrases:

'more than humans'
'human and more-than-human'
'more-than-human lives'
'More-than-human and human animals'

They imply beings hierarchically 'beyond' humans, or defined in relation to humans as the baseline.

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Sadly, these formulations appear in almost every paper I read.

Examples of better phrasing include:
'Humans are not more special than nonhumans'
'We must value nonhuman (or other-than-human) life'
'We live in a more-than-human world'

This isn’t an esoteric theoretical quibble.

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The beauty of living in #Thame.

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🏙️ 🌍 Writing update. My article 'Opening the City: Reorienting the Built Environment Towards Exposure, Vulnerability and Presence' is in the final revision stage. I've written this for @EcolCitizen's Vol 9 No 2, a semi-themed issue on the built environment, which I instigated.