Episode 37: Landscapes of Being - Ecotones

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Marti and Todd explore ecotones, the zones in nature where different environments meet and interact.

Send us Fan Mail In the fourth episode of their Landscapes series, Marti and Todd explore ecotones — the zones in nature where different environments meet and interact, generating new forms of life that neither could produce alone. Todd opens with the etymology of ecotone — eco from the Greek for household, the living relationships of a place, and tone from the Greek for tension and stretching, the same root that gives us the vibration of a musical string and the vitality of a tonic. From the...

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Hosts: Marti Spiegelman, Todd Hoskins

Topics covered

• ecotones
• nature
• environment
• life forms
• interactions
• vitality

Keywords

• ecotone
• nature
• environment
• life
• interactions
• Greek etymology

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Books & works: Landscapes of Being

Places: Greece

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