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Restorying the world
Issue 356 • May/June 2026

 

What might change if our language began to reflect a more entangled relationship with the living world – one that is more relational, perhaps even guided by affection?

In May 1966, the first issue of Resurgence was published. That’s 60 years of stories and 60 years of asking how we might live more gently and more attentively within the living world. Across those years, the words we use – and the ways we use them – have helped to shape that asking.

When commissioning writers for this magazine, I invited them to avoid using the word Nature altogether. In her introduction to the themed section, gardener and writer Sui Searle writes: “The story of separation runs through our culture: that humans stand outside and above this thing we call Nature. Nature as object, as noun – distinct from us: something to be used in our service.” 

Much of our language carries this inheritance. Words shape the stories we tell, and stories shape how we live our lives. The poet and writer Sophie Strand says she doesn’t like to work by banishing words “by subtraction” and instead likes to “add enough on top of them that they meld and rot and grow something new”. Language, after all, is never fixed. In late Middle English, the word nature could also appear as a verb. To nature something was to bring it forth, to foster its growth, to nurture and sustain life. Perhaps the question, then, is how such shifts in language might shape the stories we tell today.

So, the invitation to readers is this: how much do we need to rewrite our own texts? How much do we need to change the stories that we tell about the world – and about our place within it? And what might happen if, like the writers in this issue, we allowed our language to grow a little wilder?
 
Highlights

Coming into relationship with Earth: Sui Searle

My greatest teacher is the mushroom: Tori Tsui

The untapped power of fungal networks: Catherine Early

Voices in common: Craig Jordan-Baker

Imagining with the more than human: Elena Landinez

Echopoetry: Briony Hughes