
In "Our Wild Calling," Richard Louv explores how human-animal connections can cure our epidemic of loneliness. Bill McKibben calls it "remarkable" for breaking our screen fixation. Could deepening relationships with wildlife - from urban foxes to household pets - be our path to healing?
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A six-year-old boy once told his mother that his heart lived inside their golden retriever, Jack. Not metaphorically-literally. He believed his heart had moved from his chest into the dog's body, beating there alongside Jack's own. Most adults would dismiss this as childish confusion, but what if this boy understood something we've forgotten? What if the boundary between ourselves and other creatures is far more permeable than we've been taught to believe? We're living through what health officials now call an epidemic of loneliness. Americans have fewer close friends than previous generations, and chronic isolation rivals obesity as a mortality risk. But there's another kind of loneliness we rarely name: species loneliness. It's the gnawing fear that we're utterly alone in the universe, separated not just from each other but from the millions of other conscious beings sharing this planet. We've become so absorbed in our digital devices and climate-controlled bubbles that we've lost the ancient intimacy our ancestors shared with the living world. Yet something remarkable is happening-wild animals are returning to our cities in unprecedented numbers, and a new generation of scientists is discovering that other creatures possess far more intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness than we ever imagined. The question isn't whether we can reconnect with our animal kin. It's whether we're brave enough to let them change us.
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